A reading prayer

If you struggle to focus while reading, you might like to pray this ‘reading prayer’ I came across recently.

“Guide my mind to read the right books and, having chosen them, to read them in such a way that I am willing to learn lessons that will change my life.

When I read to enhance my faith, may I read in such a way that I am drawn closer to You.

When I read for recreation, may there be nothing in what I read that would take me away from You.

May everything I read so refresh my mind that I seek after everything that is pure, right and true.

Amen