DIfferent today

Today's lesson ( ) is from the fourth conversation in Brother Lawrence's The Practice of the Presence of God. I believe that some of the simplest, shortest works are the best to revisit over and over - St. Therese's Little Way, Brother Lawrence, Thomas A Kempis. If we goes back to these as the basics, over and over, I don't think we can do wrong...

"In our conversation with God we should also engage in praising, adoring, and loving Him incessantly for His infinite goodness and perfection. Without being discouraged on account of our sins, we should pray for His grace with a perfect confidence, as relying upon the infinite merits of our Lord. Brother Lawrence said that God never failed offering us His grace at each action. It never failed except when Brother Lawrence's thoughts had wandered from a sense of God's Presence, or he forgot to ask His assistance. He said that God always gave us light in our doubts, when we had no other design but to please Him.

Our sanctification did not depend upon changing our works. Instead, it depended on doing that for God's sake which we commonly do for our own. He thought it was lamentable to see how many people mistook the means for the end, addicting themselves to certain works which they performed very imperfectly by reason of their human or selfish regards. The most excellent method he had found for going to God was that of doing our common business without any view of pleasing men but purely for the love of God."

Thus endeth today's lesson. ( )

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