Brother Lawrence Practicing the Presence of God
'It wa sobserved that in the greatest hurry of business in the kitchen, he still preserved his recollection and heavenly-mindedness. He was never hasty nor loitering, but did each thing in its season with an even, uninterrupted composure and tranquility of spitiy. 'The time of business,' said he, 'does not, for 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 differnt things, I possess God in as great tranquility a sif I were upon my knees at the Blessed Sacrament.' p. 25
'He complains much of our blindness and cries often that we are to be pitied who content ourselves with so little. 'God.' he says, 'has infinate treasure to bestow, and we take up only a little conscious devotion, which passes in a moment. Blind as we are, we hinder God and stop the current of his graces. But when he finds a soul penetrated with a lively faith, he pours into it his graces and favours plentifully. There they flow like a torrent which, after being forcibly stopped against its ordinary course, when it has found a passage, it spreads itself with impetuosity and abundance.'
Yes, we often stop this torrent by the little value we set upon it. But let us stop it no more; let us enter into ourselves and break down the bank which hinders it. let us make way for grace; let us redeem the lost time, for perhaps we have but little left.' p. 43