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Wednesday, December 21, 2016

Mo from the Bro...

As this particular season in our journey runs head on to spiritual  things like commercialism, misunderstanding...or a conscious rejection of the meaning and Spirit of celebrating the birth and coming of our Soon coming Lord and Savior Jesus Christ....We, Yoked up, armor on , shield up, and sword sharp  enter into the fray. Distracted hither and yon into leaving that "zone" of being in or as Brother Lawrence expressed so rightly " Practicing the presence of God".  Just thought I would share some of the good Brothers excerpts to encourage, build up and remind us of who we are, who Christ is in us, and enlighten or help to keep our light shining...
From his book "Practicing the Presence of God"

“He does not ask much of us, merely a thought of Him from time to time, a little act of adoration, sometimes to ask for His grace, sometimes to offer Him your sufferings, at other times to thank Him for the graces, past and present, He has bestowed on you, in the midst of your troubles to take solace in Him as often as you can. Lift up your heart to Him during your meals and in company; the least little remembrance will always be the most pleasing to Him. One need not cry out very loudly; He is nearer to us than we think.” 

Remember...this is a man who wanted an encounter with God but was assigned to the kitchen...a place he was not quite...groovy with, and coming to terms with himself and his place in the world...and like Job and Paul before him...found in his "conflict" with his circumstances and his relationship...revelation and a new birth...person living by the life of Jesus in us...


“I regard myself as the most wretched of all men, stinking and covered with sores, and as one who has committed all sorts of crimes against his King. Overcome by remorse, I confess all my wickedness to Him, ask His pardon and abandon myself entirely to Him to do with as He will. But this King, filled with goodness and mercy, far from chastising me, lovingly embraces me, makes me eat at His table, serves me with His own hands, gives me the keys of His treasures and treats me as His favorite. He talks with me and is delighted with me in a thousand and one ways; He forgives me and relieves me of my principle bad habits without talking about them; I beg Him to make me according to His heart and always the more weak and despicable I see myself to be, the more beloved I am of God.” 

Eventually finding the answer lay in that relationship that was his ...communion, his prayers became an ongoing conversation...

“That we should establish ourselves in a sense of GOD’s Presence, by continually conversing with Him. That it was a shameful thing to quit His conversation, to think of trifles and fooleries.” 

and...

“We should fix ourselves firmly in the presence of God by conversing all the time with Him...we should feed our soul with a lofty conception of God and from that derive great joy in being his. We should put life in our faith. We should give ourselves utterly to God in pure abandonment, in temporal and spiritual matters alike, and find contentment in the doing of His will,whether he takes us through sufferings or consolations. ” 

So we should ...Keep in touch...Amen?

“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.” 

Taste this...and after chewing it on a bit...please share with someone you work with...live with, or whomever God puts into your sphere of ...influence..in your presence share His  ;)

“That all things are possible to him who believes, that they are less difficult to him who hopes, they are more easy to him who loves, and still more easy to him who perseveres in the practice of these three virtues.” 

Merry Christmas and Rock and Roll!  Jesus is the Rock...and we Roll!  Ho Ho Ho...

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