Harvesting The Fruits of Contemplation

At times, we may tell ourselves it is too difficult to be conscious of and with God each day. There is not enough time, we moan, to complete the unending tasks in front of us - projects which frequently leave us feeling overburdened and exhausted with little time for our Lord . We would be mistaken. (Image source: Wikimedia Commons ) In his classic book , The Practice of the Presence of God ,  Brother Lawrence tells us that everything we do during the course of the day can place us in God's Presence if all is done for the love of God. "I began to live," Brother Lawrence wrote, "as if there were no one save God and me in the world." As one author wrote: "Together, God and Brother Lawrence cooked meals, ran errands, scrubbed pots, and endured the scorn of the world". St. Catherine of Siena had her "interior spiritual cell" where she could seek refuge with the Lord she loved, no matter what she might be physically doing a...

(Photo©Michael Seagriff) Pondering Tidbits of Truth is my simple and inadequate way of providing nuggets of spiritual wisdom for you to chew on from time to time. Juan Donoso Cortes "Those who pray do more for the world than those who fight, and if the world is going from bad to worse, it is because there are more battles than prayers." (From The Soul of the Apostolate )

Pondering Tidbits of Truth is my simple and inadequate way of providing nuggets of spiritual wisdom for you to chew on from time to time.   Brother Lawrence "It is not necessary for being with God to always at church. We make an oratory of our heart wherein to retire from time to time to converse with Him in meekness, humility, and love. Everyone is capable of such familiar conversation with God, some more, some less. He knows what we can do.Let us begin, then." (From The Practice of the Presence of God )