Meditation and Prayer

For about the last year I have been using the method of meditation set out by the World Community for Christian Meditation founded by John Main. It is based on meditating for 30 minutes each morning and evening on a mantra, WCCM recommends the use of the word Marantha. I have decided for the moment to use this as my morning office along with the Jesus Prayer. Saying the morning office on my own each day I am finding it increasingly difficult to use one of the fixed forms. Over the last four years I have tried many : - The Divine Office. Celebrating Common Prayer, The Mirfield Offices, and the Short Offices of the Episcopal Church of Scotland but none of them seem to be able to sustain me at this time. So beginning this morning I am using the John Main method accompanied at the beginning by reading one of the homilies from Word into Silence - A Manual for Christian Meditation by John Main. I will try that for a month and see how I get on.