Our love for God is enhanced by our deepening awareness of His presence.
Following are practical recommendations to grow in practicing the presence of God:
The first way to develop presence is in living each day with great simplicity.
The second is faithfulness to the exercise of growing our inner awareness of God in faith, always gently, humbly, and lovingly, without giving in to hurry or anxiety.
Ensuring that this inner awareness, no matter how brief, precedes all our activities, and that we grow in the habit by accompanying these activities and that finishing all tasks in the same way.
For beginners, forming a few words interiorly is helpful, like: “My God, I am all yours,” . . . or “Love, create in me a new heart”
The practice of the presence of God, although a little difficult at first, achieves marvelous effects in the soul, attracting an abundance of God’s graces, and when done faithfully, it imperceptibly leads the soul to this simple awareness, to this loving view of God present everywhere.
Hebrews 10:19-22 “And so, dear brothers and sisters, we can boldly enter heaven’s Most Holy Place because of the blood of Jesus. By his death, Jesus opened a new and life-giving way through the curtain into the Most Holy Place. And since we have a great High Priest who rules over God’s house, let us go right into the presence of God with sincere hearts fully trusting him.”
