Reading Brother Lawrence

"I consider myself as the most wretched of men, full of sores and corruption, and who has committed all sorts of crimes against his King. Touched with a sensible regret, I confess to Him all my wickedness, I ask his forgiveness, I abandon myself in His hands that He may do what He pleases with me. The King, full of mercy and goodness, very far from chastising me, embraces me with love, makes me eat at His table, serves me with His own hands, gives me the key to of His treasures; He converses and delights Himself with me in incessantly, in a thousand and a thousand ways, and treats me in all respects as His favorite.It is thus I consider myself from time to time in His holy presence. My most useful method is this simple attention, and such a general passionate regard to God, to whom I find myself often attached with greatr sweetness and delight than that of an infant at the mother's breast; so that,if I dare use the expression, I should choose to call this state the bosom of God, for the inexpressable sweetness which I taste and experience there."

"Sometimes I consider myself there as a stone before a carver, whereof he is to make a statue; presenting myself thus before God, I desire Him to form His perfect image in my soul, and make me entirely like Himself"