something to meditate on…

Brother Lawrence was a seventeenth-century French monk who spent the latter part of his life practicing the presence of God (he spent most of his day preparing meals and cleaning dishes in the abbey kitchen).  After he died, his journals and personal writings were found and, later, published.  Here is a small excerpt worth pondering:

“The holiest, most common, most necessary practice in the spiritual life is the presence of God, that is to take delight in and become accustomed to his divine company, speaking humbly and talking lovingly with Him at every moment, without rule or system….  We must continually work hard so that each of our actions is a way of carrying on little conversations with God, not in any carefully prepared way but as it comes from the purity and simplicity of the heart.”