Feelings. We all have feelings. Sometimes we express them; sometimes we don't express them; sometimes we try to express them, but it doesn't come out right; sometimes we just don't know how to express them the way we really want to. Sometimes what is on the inside comes out different when it gets to the outside. This book is an attempt to match what is on the inside with what comes out on the outside. It is not necessarily the right way or the wrong way; it is just a way. Maybe you can "feel" these feelings, maybe you can't. Sometimes we are inspired, sometimes we are inspired to inspire others. I just want to share these feelings with you and hope something comes out of it that is good. Maybe you will feel them as Poetic. Brother Lawrence, formerly known as Lawrence Brown, is a native of Washington, D. C. He was born and (mostly) educated in D. C., but currently resides in Prince Georges County, Maryland, right outside of Washington, D. C. Most of his career was spent working with people in teaching, counseling, training and managing educational, recreational and social programs for all ages, sexes, creeds, races and ethnic groups, and special populations. He is retired and spends most of his time, skills and gifts working in a ministry he founded about 15 years ago. It is based on Christian principles and the Word of God. He believes that love is the greatest known power in the universe, and that God is the epitome of love. The ministry is called IAAG (Pronounced Eeeyagg), because It's All About God.
Brother Lawrence (1614 - 1691)
Served as a lay brother in a Carmelite monastery in Paris. Christians commonly remember him for the intimacy he expressed concerning his relationship to God as recorded in a book compiled after his death, the classic Christian text, The Practice of the Presence of God.Despite his lowly position in life and the priory, his character attracted many to him. He had a reputation for experiencing profound peace and visitors came to seek spiritual guidance from him. The wisdom he passed on to them, in conversations and in letters, would later become the basis for the book, The Practice of the Presence of God. Father Joseph de Beaufort, later vicar general to the Archbishop of Paris, compiled this work after Brother Lawrence died. It became popular among Catholics and Protestants alike, with John Wesley and A. W. Tozer recommending it to others.
Brother Lawrence, born Nicholas Herman, a lowly and unlearned man, who, after having been a footman and soldier, was admitted a Lay Brother among the barefooted Carmelites at Paris in 1666, and was afterwards known as "Brother Lawrence."
His conversion, which took place when he was about eighteen years old, was the result, under God, of the mere sight in midwinter, of a dry and leafless tree, and of the reflections it stirred respecting the change the coming spring would bring. From that time he grew eminently in the knowledge and love of GOD, endeavoring constantly to walk "as in His presence." No wilderness wanderings seem to have intervened between the Red Sea and the Jordan of his experience. A wholly consecrated man, he lived his Christian life through as a pilgrim--as a steward and not as an owner, and died at the age of eighty, leaving a name which has been as "ointment poured forth."
Nicholas entered the priory in Paris as a lay brother, not having the education necessary to become a cleric, and took the religious name, "Lawrence of the Resurrection". He spent almost all of the rest of his life within the walls of the priory, working in the kitchen for most of his life and as a repairer of sandals in his later years.
Despite his lowly position in life and the priory, his character attracted many to him. He had a reputation for experiencing profound peace and visitors came to seek spiritual guidance from him. The wisdom he passed on to them, in conversations and in letters, would later become the basis for the book, The Practice of the Presence of God. Father Joseph de Beaufort, later vicar general to the Archbishop of Paris, compiled this work after Brother Lawrence died. It became popular among Catholics and Protestants alike, with John Wesley and A. W. Tozer recommending it to others.
He found a peace in reconciling himself to the thought that this struggle and longing was his destiny. He said his soul "had come to its own home and place of rest." His death in 1691 occurred in relative obscurity, but his teachings lived on in the compilation of his words.
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