The Advantage of Introducing the Spirit into Your Everyday Menial Tasks

Washing the Dishes Can Be a Spiritual Event

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Years ago, Brother Lawrence penned a book, The Practice of the Presence of God. It was after a 20th-century French Catholic philosopher, Jacque Maritain, stated that contemplation was not just for the cloister. In fact, it needed to be put “on the roads of the world.”

Brother Lawrence took that to heart and did just that. He began to focus on the presence of God in his menial tasks.

“We search for stated ways and methods of learning how to love God, and to come at that love we disquiet our minds by I know not how many devices; we give ourselves a world of trouble and pursue a multitude of practices to attain to a sense of the Presence of God. And yet it is so simple.

How very much shorter it is and easier to do our common business purely for the love of God, …” —Brother Lawrence

Setting God’s consecrating mark on all you lay hands to has the ability to foster a sense of God’s abiding…