It never has been. What Bradshaw reminds us of is that is was never meant to be. The Daily Office, daily prayer itself is more discipline than it is worship. Daily prayer is a rule, a habit, a way of going about a task. Daily prayer is also a kind of training that corrects, molds and perfects the mental faculties and moral character.
Daily prayer is more discipline than worship.
When I played football, basketball and baseball I never loved the drills we used to do. I absolutely hated running laps. When I took a language I was always impatient learning the rules and tenses and longed to be able to speak it fluently in clear sentences. It is not by accident that I did not last very long on the football, basketball and baseball teams and never really mastered any language. I hated to practice, to train.