In the book, The Practice of the Presence of God, the priest who interviewed Brother Lawrence, a kitchen worker in a seventeenth-century Paris monastery, recorded that Brother Lawrence told him:
That our sanctification did not depend on changing our works, but in doing that for God’s sake which we commonly do for our own.
In those few words lies great wisdom. if you’re frustrated because you can’t find the time for a spiritual practice, you need (more…)