Just before the new year, a friend of mine gifted me a copy of Brother Lawrence’s popular book The Practice of the Presence of God. One passage in particular stood out to me, “That daily life should be separate from prayer life is a great delusion.”

Dear John,

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Happy Yogananda's birthday!
Narayan & Dharmadevi

God’s Protecting Presence

Teach me to feel that I am enveloped always in the aureole of Thine all-protecting omnipresence—
in birth, in sorrow, in joy, in death, in activity, in meditation, in ignorance, in trials, and in final emancipation.

Teach me to open the gate of meditation that alone will lead to Thy blessed presence.

Naughty or good, I am Thy child. Sinner or saint, I am Thy child.

Thy light of goodness and Thy protective power are ever shining through me. I saw them not, because my eyes of wisdom were closed. Now Thy touch of peace has opened my eyes, and Thy goodness and certain protection are flowing through me.

--Metaphysical Meditations by Paramhansa Yogananda