I’ve got to stop thinking “I need to get away from it all”. That’s the thinking that leads me to follow the Devil’s temptations and distract myself from God and His purpose for me.
I need to try to see God in it all.
Brother Lawrence described doing everything for God “with an even, uninterrupted composure and tranquility of spirit.”
The time of business does not with me differ from the time of prayer and in the noise and clatter of my kitchen, while several persons are at the same time calling for different things, I possess God in as great tranquility as if I were upon my knees at the blessed sacrament.
Anita had underlined one of Brother Lawrence’s prayers in The Practice of the Presence of God pertaining to performing worldly tasks in the name of God.
O my God, since Thou art with me, and I must now, in obedience to Thy commandments, apply my mind to these outward things, I beseech Thee to grant me the grace to continue in Thy presence; and to this end do Thou prosper me with Thy assistance, receive all my works, and possess all my affections.
