My prayer notebook (part 1 of 3)

I really need to create a prayer notebook. I keep intending to start one, and I might even design one, and then I abandon it because it doesn’t meet my needs. I guess it’s part of my weird perfectionist tendency: I plan and plan because I want it to be perfect, but the thing that I plan doesn’t happen because I don’t come up with the perfect plan.

Features:

Simply put, my notebook would, of course, include the date, the request/what I’m praying for, and space for answered prayer.

Other features that I want in my prayer notebook include:

• Portability. I’d prefer something that’s easy to carry around. I probably won’t carry it with me outside the house (private prayers, after all), but I would like to be able to take it with me to wherever I’m praying in the house.
• The ability to have tabbed sections. For example, I might have one section for my family (a page for the family as a whole, plus a separate page for each family member), one section for specific people, one section for events/broader things, etc.
• Removable pages. When a page is full of answered prayers and/or a certain age, I’d like to be able to archive them somehow. Or, if people’s statuses change (for example, a friend becomes a church leader or something like that), I’d like to have the option to be able to easily move that person to the appropriate section. In other words, I’d like to have the ability to move things around when and if I want to.
• Space for recording additional info. For example, I’d like to have enough space to include long answers to prayer requests without feeling like I’ve wasted a lot of space if there aren’t long answers. Ways people do this:
  • Vertical rule – put a line down the page so that you have space on the left for the request and space on the right for the answer. This wouldn’t work too well if I have a small notebook, though.
  • Left-side, right-side format – use one side of the facing page to write the request(s) and the other side of the page to write the answer(s). This gives me more space than the option listed immediately above.
  • Front page, back page format – similar to the option immediately above, but using the back of the page rather than one of the pages facing me.
  • Space under the request – leave several blank lines under the request. Or, leave the entire rest of the page blank.

I’ll write a little more about the organization of my prayer notebook in my next post.

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