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Summary: Making Life's Focus as Simple as God Designed It
Review: This book is too good and too short not to be read by every Christian. The author has stated simply what the Bible calls all believers to: Living every moment, every circumstance, every chore, every delight, every trial of life for the love and worship of God. We don't need to make things so complicated in trying to balance these activities with those activities with other activities. Yes, directed meditative time with God in His Word is necessary; but the author makes clear the teaching of the Bible when he says:"I am doing now what I will do for all eternity." Brother Lawrence is simply saying: "Make life simple--do everything for the love and worship of God, and you will be living the life of eternity even here on earth." Brother Lawrence explains how he lived such a live and gives principles on how we may do the same. And it works for one simple reason: It's biblical--it's the same method God has given us in His Word.
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Summary: The Simple Experience of God
Review: This is such a simple spiritual book that anyone who wants to know more about prayer and the Christian life should enjoy reading through it. Brother Lawrence had one basic message, which was the importance of the experience of God and His love in the depths of one's soul. His sayings in this book were placed in writing and published after his death, in a beautiful text that conveys much of Brother Lawrence's warm personality as well as the depth of his prayer life. Brother Lawrence was not a devotional writer per se. Rather, having once been footman to the French treasurer, he became for 15 years the cook at the Paris Carmelite monastery. In this collection of his messages given to those who lived around him, he spoke of prayer through the course of a busy day, amidst the noise of a monastery kitchen. The book has much to say to the modern person who is trying to live a spiritual life in the midst of a busy career or home. Brother Lawrence's personality shows through this work. He was described by his first biographer as a man with a "rather rough exterior" but who "made you feel that you had found a friend, to whom you could unbosom yourself wholly." His words convey this accessibility to those around him, and his true wish to share with others how better to live in a constant awareness of the presence of God throughout our daily lives.
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Summary: PURE TRUTH
Review: What honesty and truth brother Lawrence shares. If we had him writing an advice collum today, the world would be a healed place. Living in God's presence with sincere awe brother lawrence took joy in the mundane and rejoiced in pain. He advises Christians to give their lives to God sooner and to live in His presence moment by moment, taking the silly life we have here and making it holy. It was written about brother Lawrence that, "His views were not limited by time, because he contemplated nothing but the Eternal One and had become eternal like Him." How I long for this kind of relationship. Read this one, it will change your life.
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