The idea of "being" is based heavily on 
Brother Lawrence's, The Practice of the Presence of God (Download
 your own copy here). Being in God's presence is my breath. Your 
life, and my life, will be in stark contrast to one another.  If we 
aren't careful, we believe the lie that we should finish our check 
lists, race through scheduling, and run an efficient life so that at the
 end of the day, we can worship God.  Instead, I choose to purposefully live
 in the truth that living is breathing worship, a relationship with the 
God who is now-here. 
Brother Lawrence's fourth conversation 
brings such to light:
"He told me that all consists in one 
hearty renunciation of everything which does not lead us to God in 
order that we may accustom ourselves to a continual conversation with
 Him, with freedom and in simplicity. 
"That we need only to recognize God 
intimately present with us, and to address ourselves to Him every 
moment, that we may beg His assistance for knowing His will in things 
doubtful, and for rightly performing those which we plainly see He 
requires of us; offering them to Him before we do them, and giving Him 
thanks when we have done. 
"That in this conversation with God we 
are also employed in praising, adoring, and loving Him unceasingly, 
for His infinite goodness and perfection... That our sanctification 
did not depend upon changing our works, but in doing for God's 
sake which commonly we do for our own...
"That the most excellent method he had 
found of going to God was that of doing our common business 
without any view of pleasing man (Galatians 1:10; Ephesians 6:5) and, 
(as far as we are capable) purely for the love of God."
 
 
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