Mar 20 2009
Articles of Faith: The Practice of the Presence of God Endures with Brother Lawrence
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“There is not in the world a kind of life more sweet and delightful, than that of a continual conversation with God. Those only can comprehend it who practice and experience it.” - Brother Lawrence
Yesterday as my wandering thoughts often have me do, I thought of something after hearing a brief sermon about making time with God. I thought of a small book I found for free a few months ago by a 15th Century French monk named Brother Lawrence entitled The Practice of the Presence of God. In the meager volume, Brother Lawrence details his journey with God in a collection of letters and conversations had with his friends and peers during his monastic life.
The brother like all those who claim a relationship with the Most High, attends worship services, prays zealously, and gives alms to the needy as per usual. But in a rare but illuminating twist, Brother Lawrence claims never to cease in his adoration. His every waking action he devotes to God - not by elaborate ritual or constant adoration with oils, wine or special vestments, but with a simple, pure acknowledgment of his creator in simple moments waking, sleeping, eating,laughing and mourning In all things and all parts of his being, he aims to selflessly submit fully to the love of God.
In this way I challenge all of the faithful and those still seeking to not only read the e-text below, but to attempt to do the practice in your lives: to make every breath and motion an homage to the greatest forces unseen and to live peacefully within its arms. May you be blessed!
Wax with joy!
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