Lately, everything that I've been reading seems to be pressing just ONE thing into my being: love.
Nothing else matters if we don't have love.
"Brother Lawrence's only means of going to God was to do everything for the love of Him. He was thus indifferent about what he did. All that mattered was that he did it for God. It was He, and not the activity, that he considered. He knew that the more the thing he did was opposed to his natural inclination, the greater was the merit of his love in offering it to God. He knew that the pettiness of the deed would not diminish the worth of his offering, because God - needing nothing - considers in our works only the love that accompanies them.
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Never tire of doing even the smallest things for Him, because He isn't impressed so much with the dimensions of our work as with the love in which it is done.
He [Brother Lawrence] said that in order to be sure we are doing God's will, we should simply develop an attitude of faith, hope and love. We need not be concerned about anything else. It simply is not important and should only be regarded as the means of getting to the final goal of being entirely lost in the love of God. We should desire to love Him as perfectly as we can, in this life as well as in eternity."
- The Practise of the Presence of God, Brother Lawrence
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