The most sacred, most ordinary, and most necessary practice in the spiritual life is the presence of God. -- Brother Lawrence, "Practice of the Presence"
Learning how to practice the presence of God is my deeper goal now. To practice the presence of God is more than thoughts and words and prayers and even practices...I've learned.
The evergreen how to? is the gift that lives to give.
I wonder if it isn't to live my life just as I have been living my life, but realizing, or recognizing, the inner working is and has ever been going on and for my benefit. For my benefit by benefitting others.
Here's where go beyond reason hits paydirt...go beyond reason to love. or to hope, or to...ah, or to practice the presence. Period. There. God's will, God's way simplified for us.
Knowing the right words is a good start, but doing is the pearl beyond price...not of self, but of Self. There's God's will...unexplainable in Its perfection.
Thank you.
No comments:
Post a Comment