Brother Lawrence

One book that my men's group is reading is "The Practice of the Presence of God" by Brother Lawrence. He was a cook in a 17th-century monastary. The subject of his book is exactly what the title describes. How does one learn to ber in God's Presence? We know that we are theoloigcally, but how do we learn it practically?

Most of what he wrote can be boiled down into one succinct idea. Doing what we do in life not for our pleasure, but for God's Glory. He writes, "That the most excellent method he had found of going to God was of doing our common business without any view of pleasing men and purely for the love of God" He also says, "That we ought not to be weary of doing little things for the love of God, who regards not the greatness of the work, but the love with which it is performed."