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Podcast: theeffect Podcasts
Episode: Undivided Presence
Description: Dave Brisbin 1.15.23
Nicolas Herman was an uneducated peasant in seventeenth century France, impressed into the military where he was assigned the most menial tasks. When he was released, he decided to enter a Carmelite monastery and there became Br. Lawrence of the Resurrection, and was assigned the most menial tasks. But after years of practice, even working in a noisy kitchen, he found a presence of God that sustained and transformed any task, no matter how small, into a sacred act.
A friend of his wrote down everything he remembered of his conversations with Br. Lawrence—recorded him saying that al...