your prayer life
the Podcast
Enter the ancient prayer of the Church. The timeless words of the Psalms, spoken over gentle music, invite you to create a space of stillness in the midst of your day. Like the rhythm of a monastery’s prayer hours, each episode invites you to pause, listen, and lift your heart to God in quiet worship.This podcast is a labor of love by Maxmillian Michieli. Always free. No ads. Just a soundtrack for your prayer life.Press Play and enter into the presence of the Lord.Scripture is taken from the World English Bible Updated edition. This Bible is in the Public Domain.
The Story
Hey, my name is Max. I love Jesus. I hope these pages and podcasts will draw you closer to Him too. Drop me a line or follow me on Substack to connect!
Here is the back story of the podcast:About eight years ago, I had a great idea for a podcast. It was called “your prayer life,” and the general premise was this:I struggled to find time to pray, and I was going to ask my guests one simple question- what does your prayer life look like?I would learn from their expertise and in the process, the world would benefit from it too.I started it. I interviewed a grand total of four people. I found out a lot.Then my life imploded. Divorce was a real possibility after twenty-four years of marriage and seven children.I started praying for my marriage and pivoted to recording these prayers and publishing them as the podcast.It got pretty successful. I had over ten thousand listeners every single month.But God did not answer my prayers. I ended up divorcing anyway and my entire world turned to shit.I stopped recording. Then started again. Then met a wonderful woman. Stopped again. Started again. Got married. Stopped. Started. Had a baby. Stopped. Started.After a long time, and after a particularly difficult personal time, I felt the need to pull the plug once and for all. I deleted every single recording I had ever made and unpublished the podcast once and for all. By this time the listenership had dwindled to almost nothing and I felt next to useless. It was quite depressing. Actually, that is not quite true. I was depressed. I felt that pulling the plug would put this struggle behind me once and for all. Maybe God had other plans. Maybe there is something else on the horizon for me. Maybe giving up is the right thing to do.I think it was.Because it brought me back to God.There is something unholy about self seeking endeavors. Your Prayer Life became, most certainly, unequivocally, a self seeking endeavor. It killed the very thing I sought to bring to life- my prayer life.I put some space between myself and the podcast for a while. It was the healthy thing to do. I did not give it much thought, and that was also healthy.I went through a rebirth of sorts. I started seeking God again. I ached to hear His voice. I changed the way I approached Him. I took time to listen.And now?It’s time to start again. Oh yeah, I know. For real this time? Max, you stopped and started like ten times. What is different this time?Me. I’m different.I don’t care if this grows. I just seek to be faithful to the calling that God has placed on my life.So here I am.Starting over. Fresh.What does it look like now?For starters, I am now recording from scratch. I had permanently deleted everything prior, so I am starting over, with the Psalms. I want to glorify God with these recordings. I want to bless you with them.Next, I will build out a feature of the podcast that I loved before: the Liturgy of the Hours. If you are not familiar with that, it is a way of praying that started in the monastic traditions. It is based upon the Psalms. I have a slight twist on it. It will be structured so that if you pray Morning, Midday, and Night prayer each day, every 31 day cycle will rotate through each and every Psalm.I have two other plans which I will reveal later as I build out the episodes again.At the same time, I think the original idea was a really good one. I’m going to revisit it now, with Max out of the way and Jesus front and center.So here is my ask:If you know someone with a deep prayer life, and you want to find out what makes them tick, send them my way. I will interview them.I don’t want famous people. That’s what I had before.I want salt of the earth, faithful, ordinary people with a deep love of God.I want to ask them what their prayer life looks like.And I will share with the world what they have to say.In the meantime, I hope you enjoy the podcast as it gets built out. Just press "play" and let it be a soundtrack for Your Prayer Life.Peace to you,
Maxmillian Michieli
10/11/2025