https://archive.rustgeek.me/tags/300-words-or-less/ Recent content in 300-Words-or-Less on A Geek's Life Hugo en Thu, 16 Jul 2020 13:06:50 +0000 https://archive.rustgeek.me/2020/07/16/the-practice-of-the-presence-of-god-in-modern-english/ Thu, 16 Jul 2020 13:06:50 +0000 https://archive.rustgeek.me/2020/07/16/the-practice-of-the-presence-of-god-in-modern-english/ <p><img loading="lazy" src="https://archive.rustgeek.me/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/practice-of-the-presence.jpg"><em><a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Practice-Presence-God-Modern-English-ebook/dp/B00FZ40L9G/">The Practice of The Presence of God (In Modern English)</a> by Brother Lawrence (Author) and Marshall Davis (Translator)</em></p> <p>**</p> <p><a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Practice-Presence-God-Modern-English/dp/1521299757">A classic</a> which dates back to the late 1600s, this is a book that regularly makes it on to lists of great devotional books. This (newish) translation is by <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Marshall-Davis/e/B001K8Y0RU/ref=dp_byline_cont_pop_book_2">Marshall Davis</a>, who has form for this sort of reimagining. Between this year being <a href="https://archive.rustgeek.me/2020/01/01/2020-delve-deeper/">my year of delving deeper</a> and plenty of time thanks to COVID-19, I finally got round to reading this!  to read has ended up on my pile for years. The central characters are a French lay brother, born Nicholas Herman but better known as Brother Lawrence, and Father Joseph de Beaufort, the vicar general to the Archbishop of Paris. A perhaps unlikely friendship given their different stations in life, we have it to thank for the letters and conversations recorded here.</p>