In the midst of preparing for my test, midterm, and essay, all of which are due this week, I took some time to hang out with Brother Lawrence (via his book The Practice of the Presence of God). I've been going through it slowly in order to maximize digestive value, but here are some of his final thoughts, written a week before he died.

Let all our employment be to know God; the more one knows Him, the
more one desires to know Him. And as knowledge is commonly the measure of love,
the deeper and more extensive our knowledge shall be, the greater will be our
love; and if our love of God were great, we should love Him equally in pains
and pleasures.

Let us not content ourselves with loving God for the mere sensible favors,
how elevated soever, which He has done or may do us. Such favors, though never
so great, cannot bring us so near to Him as faith does in one simple act. Let us
seek Him often by faith. He is within us; seek Him not elsewhere.

Sometimes university has frustrated me in that I spend so much time getting to "know" other subjects, without having the same opportunity to "know" God. There have been some courses that have magnified God's glory and majesty in His creation and order, but I'll have to look a bit harder to find God through my Psych of Crime notes for tomorrow's midterm.