Force Yourself to Pray the Rosary

Many times I have heard and read that a deed that you force yourself to do is worth a lot more than one that you love to do.  Why?  Because the reason you are doing it is "love."  It proves your love.  Does anyone want to change dirty diapers?  No, we push ourselves to do it.

I was reminded of this as I read, "What Evelyn Waugh saw in America," by Joshua Hren, in America magazine.

from Jean's blog 
https://www.writewithjean.com/2015/07/28/evelyn-waugh-and-thomas-merton/

"During the same travels, while delivering a series of lectures on “Three Vital Writers: Chesterton, Knox, and Greene,” Waugh stopped at Gethsemani Abbey in Kentucky to see Thomas Merton. Merton was indebted to Waugh, who provided extensive edits to the “long winded” Seven Storey Mountain. The book came out in England one-third shorter and with Waugh’s recommended title, Elected Silences. The younger Merton repaid his debt, in part, through spiritual friendship, advising Waugh to “say the Rosary every day. If you don’t like it, so much the better.” The monk hoped the beads would assist with Waugh’s anxiety over imperfect contrition. To Merton’s mind, Waugh was a man “with intellectual gifts” arguing himself “into a quandary that doesn’t exist.”

Instructing Waugh to pray the Rosary every day and if he didn't like it, "so much the better."

I wonder if Waugh took Merton's advice.