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was no large feat, but it was in reality a great thing and gift from God that many would yearn to achieve, and most of us can build into our lives.

Should we, too, endeavor on this path for ongoing, continual conversation with God, we must be prepared to set aside many earthly conversations. "He told me that we must establish ourselves in the presence of God by continually conversing with him. It is a shameful thing to break off our conversation with Him in order to engage in trifling or foolish talk." Remember, Brother Lawrence was a monk, so this kind of advice and way of life is more common to him as a monk than it would be to a lay person in the world. I say again, though one may take this as a how-to book, I recommend it as a lovely and charming Christian Classic that helps in prayer life and in relationship to God. As a result of reading this book, I have tried to spend more time in my waking hours in conversation with God.

Let us profit from Brother Lawrence's views, as one correspondent of his has said to a colleague. Let us allow this monk from the past to bring us in our modern world to a closer and even better relationship because of conversation with God. This is more than talk, this is going on with a discussion with the Lord, an opening of the heart, a reaching out, a willingness to let God into our lives. There is an author's message here in the book. One of those messages is this note about the practice, that lends itself to encouragement: "He confessed nonetheless that he had difficulty with this way of life at first and that he used to go for considerable lengths of time without remembering the presence of God..." My thought about this is to perservere.

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