Prayer: Practicing the Presence of God

Brother Lawrence, a 17th-century Carmelite lay brother, discovered that the kitchen could be as sacred as the chapel. In "The Practice of the Presence of God" he wrote: "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."…