Oftentimes I think people believe their prayer life a separate entity from their physical actions, that is, all things they participate in throughout their daily living. And yes, indeed we need to set aside time for a verbal prayer, but that is because of our mortal nature as I will explain which is intrinsic to our spiritual life.
Just as the angels have a mission, each one of them, in their nature being spirit, we have a mission in our mortal form. We are not unlike the angels that we have a mission, except we have two forms-mortal and spirit, thus we have each a mission that is physical and spiritual. The physical aspect of our mission is embedded in our mortal form.
We often do not see it that way but as separate because we view heavenly things as far off and not within our reach or not present here. But our Christian Faith teaches us that Jesus’ death and resurrection unites those things of heaven to those of earth. Thus through our Baptism, it follows that our body, or mortal form, has been anointed and thus it follows that so too then all our physical actions can be anointed when we unite them to the action of God’s grace through the divine life of the Holy Spirit alive in us.
Therefore, when united to the Holy Spirit, all our physical actions can be a prayer or glorified offering to our God not sperate from our prayer life but rather one with it as all our actions can be united to Divinity itself through our mortal nature.
Like the angels who have united all their spiritual actions to God as to glorify Him or else they perish, our mortal nature can also be wholly united to God’s glory, all one action really, and thus becomes our prayer life as well, a constant communion to the Holy Spirit by His grace working through us. This is what is meant by “mission”, whatever your vocation is, your mission is tied to your vocation, all the physical actions required of your daily living. And it is these things that can be one with your prayer life, because your mortal nature has been anointed through Baptism, your mortal nature which is one also with your spiritual life.
So then if all your actions are anointed, it follows that all these things give glory to God, but you must as St. Paul says cooperate with God’s grace since the anointing of these things comes from the Holy Spirit’s Life in us. Your mortal nature gives glory to God in this constant union with Hs Divine Life. Glory to God for our mortal nature! In Him, our mortality has redemptive properties, thanks be to God.