Keeping a journal can be most beneficial to you as you make your days of prayer. It can help you reflect on how God is meeting you or leading you in your prayer. The journal is for your eyes only. When the DAYS OF PERSONAL INTEGRATION ends, the journal becomes a rich spiritual treasure to which you can come back to months or even years after. It is some kind of a diary containing your memories with God,

• What were the significant feelings, reactions, intuitions, desires, emotions, thoughts, or insights during your time of prayer?

• What was the prevailing mood of your prayer: peace, agitation, excitement, boredom, confusion, calm?

• Was your prayer more about the head or the heart, or about both?

• What word, phrase, image, or memory meant most to you during prayer?

• Is there some unfinished business that you think God is calling you to return to during another time of prayer?

• Is there something happening in your life that is becoming part of your prayer? Do you feel moved to do something concrete in your life?

• Are you making the necessary preparations for your prayer?

These questions need not all be answered. Just feel free to reflect on them so you can listen more intently to how God is speaking to your heart.