If you want fellowship with God to be in your life for a long time, do not make a rigid structure and then chastise yourself when you don't comply with it. It's much better to keep a open mind and develop tenderness toward yourself.
Missed a day? You'll begin again the next day. Where are you going anyway but right where you are? This does not mean structure isn't important. It's easier to return to something solid than to an amorphous intention to some plan to communicate with God.
I tell people to begin with five minutes — a time structure and set aside — and clarify it even more. When should you communicate for those five minutes? In the morning, right before bedtime, when it's noon—no matter where you are or what you're doing?
If you choose a time, it makes the practice sturdier. And if you commit to a regular place — driving to or riding the bus to work, in front of the altar in your bedroom, walking in the park - it deepens the intention.
Structure allows you to more simply drop in without giving the inner pessimistic voice much space. The ego can give a hundred reasons not to communicate and fellowship with God. Structure helps support your urge to do it anyway.
So, let's do it! Also, that 5 minutes will increase because of your desire, but you have to start somewhere.:)
Much love,
Joseph
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