Betty: Accept the suffering that happens in your bad habits. “But please Lord, if you want me to break that habit, I need your help.” You might be able to get around it that way. The very difficulty of you breaking this bad habit can become a prayer. But don’t engage in it anymore than you absolutely have to in order to get out of it. 

AM: So, when it comes up, what do I do?

Betty: Change your focus. You need to treat it like it’s sin. I’m not saying it is. But you need to treat it as though it’s sin. You don’t want to go into temptation.  Because it is temptation. In a sense, you’re letting yourself give Satan gratification. And that’s not why you’re here.

Do you have a bad habit? I invite you to turn to God for help and offer up the very difficulty of breaking it as a prayer.