Nope. I can sit in a church and my concentration is maybe 5 minutes on a good day. On a bad day the sounds there would make it unbearable. Look if I can't complete the thought process of saying The Lords Prayer at times that says there is another prevailing issue at hand I am dealing with and it's not a spiritual cause. It's the same reason I have problems reading and concentrating. But I can go take a two mile walk and say my prayers such as they are. I'll return much more recharged spiritually than I would an hour in church.
For that matter on a good day I can put on the headphones with Gospel Music and achieve the same. Ironically one of the few things I can do that come easy i playing my old six string. I learned to play on Gospel Songs. Actually it was listening to a Willie Nelson album The Troublemaker LOL. One of my top favorites of several hundred CD's.
GOD gives to each of us our callings and places to be.
Dood, you’re missing the forrest for the trees! Walking and playing your six string is ritualistic behavior! Why do you think Catholics love their rosaries so much in the face of biblical injunction against “vain” repetition?
It’s not the repetition, it’s the meditation. It’s really hard to describe until you’ve felt it. It’s kind of like all of a sudden discovering you’ve been carrying around another sensory organ you never noticed before. I’m not kidding. Some of my most profound biblical discoveries have been made straight out of my memory while praying the rosary.
If the Mary thing makes you squeamish, find an ecumenical rosary page online. I’m serious. Just try it.