The Practice of the Presence of God

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Lawrence pleads that all work is valuable to God and one needs not accomplish great things to please Him. During his time as a friar he was much preoccupied with the cultivating a keen sensitivity to the presence of God in everyday life.

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However, I didn't find his methods overly profound or his committment to them overly impressive considering the fact that he was secluded from the world. The brother's practice was, on the surface, seemingly simple: to repeat a short prayer continuously throughout the work day to unite himself at all times with the presence of God. Likewise, God’s presence was to spread to the rest of the earth through Adam and Eve’s exercising dominion (Num 14:21; cf.

Brother Lawrence lived and worked most of his life at the monastery of the Discalced Carmelites on the Rue de Vaugirard in Paris, where he spent many years working in the kitchen. Lawrence seems to value a kind of mystical detachment from the present world, as if there is something super spiritual about ignoring the world around us. Fortunately for us, our book was picked up by other Christian denominations and carried to other countries where it has spread around the world. As a humble cook, Brother Lawrence learned an important lesson through each daily chore: The time he spent in communion with the Lord should be the same, whether he was bustling around in the kitchen—with several people asking questions at the same time—or on his knees in prayer.

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This is why David proclaims, “in your presence there is fullness of joy, at your right hand are pleasures forevermore” (Ps 16:11). We will have to creep, crawl, stumble and fall many times in this effort before we will ever be able to actually walk in God's presence. If I would have stopped reading about 3/4 of the way through, I probably would have given this book three stars instead of two. In practice he maintained the essentially Gnostic dichotomy between the material world as evil and the spiritual as good, rather than living out his ideal of serving God in everyday occupations like washing dishes and serving food, he chose the supposed higher path of the monk. However, he seemed to be more interested in a life of pleasant seclusion than in fulfilling the Great Commission.I finally picked up this slim volume and read a little bit of it every morning as part of my daily devotional/prayer time and I found it complemented that time nicely. I was disappointed to learn that really only about half of this book was written by Brother Lawrence. By not doing this he has lead people by example into a hyper-spirituality that is so heavenly minded its no earthly good. The wisdom he passed on to them in conversations and in letters would later become the basis for the book The Practice of the Presence of God.



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