The practice of the presence of God though we begin it at special times of prayer is designed to spill out and over and into all times.

Mother Teresa said that she couldnt imagine doing her work for more than thirty minutes without prayer. Do you and I have work that we cant imagine doing for thirty minutes without prayer

Hanging laundry on a line is a very ordinary task. It is as ordinary as scraped knees and lost keys as fixing the same simple dish for supper again and again. Ordinary is most days and Lord helps is if we overlook them.

O God make me worthy of this calling that the name of Jesus may be glorified in me and I in him.

Prayer for todayDear Lord the eternal ecstatic joy within me is often turned into bondage by my labeling mind. Please give me some meditative wisdom.

All the seeming coincidences .... were actually God catching me in his arms.

High and holy ambition--to be a saint--is not opposed to holy humility--total reliance on Gods grace. Exactly the opposite. Ambition without humility is ambition that fails. It is pride which goes before a fall Prov 1618. Humility without ambition is false humility.

As your father keeps clean his lamp to have good light so keep clean your spirit.

Make this poor self grow less and less Be Thou my life and aim Oh make me daily through Thy grace More worthy of Thy name.

The Word is light and the Holy Spirit is oxygen to pray is to see and breathe.