Good evening. My name is Branden Bachstein. I’m originally from Fairport, NY and now live in St Augustine. The past few weeks I’ve been aiming to improve my prayer life and reading. Although life is busy with work what I’ve found that personally works best is to start off the mornings with Sacred Scripture before my daughter wakes up. At night I’ll do 30 minutes or so of something else, right now it’s “Jesus and the Jewish Roots of Mary”, followed by listening to night prayers as I lay down to sleep. The biggest challenge I face now is an identity crisis of sorts where I’m falling out of love with my work and navigating what the future holds on that front. My motivation to continue to move forward is my wife, daughter and of course God. I want to provide the best life I can for them, materially and spiritually. When things get hard it’s easy to feel forgotten but we need to remember a good Father won’t abandon His children. Hopefully with this group we can help each other and bring other men to know God!