Your daily practice may involve starting your morning with a few moments set aside for the refuge chant, meditation or visualization, reflection, reading, communing with nature, or listening to music. Whatever you find brings you closer to God. Your weekly gathering with your sangha can be one place to plan the week's visualizations or readings, or to discuss and reflect on them together.

Journaling

Keeping a journal can be useful. A journal isn't for kicking yourself over, it's just for having a record over time, of what sort of practice you tried, and what the results were. You may find it useful to look back on this journal someday and you may recognize patterns you don't see now. For example, do visualizations help you more than repetitive phrases? Are you helped more by an outdoor 'commune with nature' meditative practice or more by indoor experiences? Is there a certain time of day that is more conducive for you, personally? These things show up when you look back on your journal, with loving kindness, over time.

Prepare a meditation spot, or 'beautiful corner' and be sure to try to spend at least 5 minutes a day there. If you can't find that time, try to remember to say a little prayer when you're brushing your teeth, which is morning and night, right? Write yourself a note on your bathroom mirror.

Cast your cares upon the Lord. The Lord has care for you.

Have you ever heard the phrase 'whatever you water in the garden in your soul, whatever you pay special attention to, is what will grow? With that in mind, how will this affect the daily practice of yourself and your sangha, in your speech, consumption, work, and action, as you go about becoming a closer follower of Jesus' dharma teaching?

Talking the Talk

As you grow in compassionate awareness, you will likely want to mindfully examine the way in which you and all the members of your sangha use language. You might look at using mindful speech to foster hope and relieve others from their suffering, by cultivating loving speech and deep listening. Knowing that words can create happiness or suffering, you can try to learn to speak truthfully, but not in ways that you think may cause division or discord, and not to spread news you're unsure of, or to criticize or condemn things you're unsure about. As you progress, habits will form and it will be easier to practice mindful speech.

You don't want to be an 'angry peace activist' because that's not sustainable...
... so your daily practice has to sustain you to make a difference... you need to find ways to wrap yourself up as if in a blanket, finding refuge in Jesus and Jesus' dharma teachings, taking refuge in the sheltering companionship of your sangha, against the often cold and bitter world, while still working to make it a better place, walking the sangha path.