So what if, after 11 days of trying to spend a few minutes of meditation each day, it's no longer pleasant? What if we can't focus our minds on God because there is so much going on, or we're stressed, or we have a headache, or we just don't feel like it? What if there are no "warm, fuzzy feelings" when we pray - just a cold, blank feeling inside?

Don't give up! The fact that we *want* to feel the love of God, and want to do His holy Will, and want to have a strong friendship with Him, pleases Him even when we don't feel it! He is pleased with our efforts, and will reward them when He knows the time is right.

"If you have an ardent desire for the sensible love of God, a desire that cannot but be pleasing to Him provided you are at the same time resigned to be deprived of it, remember that according to St. John Chrysostom it can be obtained only by fidelity to prayer." (underlining is mine)

~ Fr. R. P. Quadrupani, Light and Peace, originally written in 1795.