اختبار الوجود في حضرة الله – أحاديث ورسائل ومبادئ الأخ لورنس

The Book of Experiencing Being in the Presence of God is a collection of conversations, messages, and principles of Brother Lawrence, the monk in the Barefoot Carmelite Monastery in the seventeenth century. 

His real name is Nicolas Hermann and he was born in Herminia in Lorraine, France. He became a soldier when he was not yet twenty years old.

During Sweden’s raid on France, he was wounded and left the army, but often with a permanent disability.

Then he found a job as a servant, but the job, according to his testimony, was not successful.

As for what followed in his life, it is uncertain. And how happy it would be for us if we had information about the truth of the first influence which interrupted his life after his renewal at the age of eighteen, and which led him to this profound interaction with God, and from which we emanate all these subsequent experiences.

Unfortunately, we don’t know that. And in his middle age, but at what exact age he was accepted as a novice brother in the Barefoot Carmelite Order? At about this time, after four years of stress resulting from his previous injury while in the army, and after a complete submission to the will of God, he began this stage of his life with a special style of experiencing the feeling of being in the presence of God.