They come expectantly but leave disappointed. Or they may still identify themselves as Christians but actually settle for a posture toward God quite different from the one intended by Christ. Trying to speak with these people about the wonders and beauty of LIFE WITH GOD is exceedingly difficult because they simply have no reference point for it. They cannot begin to imagine what it looks like; it has remained hidden behind the shadows cast by this dark world. As Brother Lawrence, a seventeenth-century monk, said about his rich communion with God, “Those only can comprehend it who practice and
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