Simultaneity

Simultaneity – a constantly growing awareness of God’s presence. What would that look like to you? How would this be accomplished? Learn with me from Brother Lawrence, Frank Laubach and Thomas Kelly.

Brother Lawrence in Practicing the Presence of God: "this is, in my opinion, the essence of the spiritual life, and it seems to me that by practicing it properly you become spiritual in no time. There is no way of life in the world more agreeable or delightful than continual conversation with God. Only those who practice and experience it can understand this."

Frank Laubach (Letters by a Modern Mystic,) endeavored to live each moment with a sense of God’s presence. “I have done nothing but open windows – God has done the rest. There has been a succession of marvelous experiences of the friendship of God. I resolved that I would succeed better this year with my experiment of filling every minute full of the thought of God than I succeeded last year. Two years ago, a profound dissatisfaction led me to begin trying to line up my actions with the will of God about every fifteen minutes or every half hour. This year I’m trying to live all my waking moments in conscious listening to the inner voice, asking without ceasing, 'What, Father, do you desire said? What, Father, do you desire done this minute?'
"It is exactly that “moment by moment” every waking moment, surrender, responsiveness, obedience, sensitiveness, pliability, “lost in His love,” that I now have the mind-bent to explore with all my might. It means two burning passions: First, to be like Jesus. Second, to respond to God as a violin responds to the bow of the master. Open your soul and entertain the glory of God and after a while that glory will be reflected in the world about you and in the very clouds above your head."

Thomas Kelly, A Testament of Devotion
A continuously renewed immediacy (with God) –internal practices and habits of the mind, habits of unceasing orientation of the depths of our being about the Inward Light, ways of conducting our inward life so that we are perpetually bowed in worship while we are also very busy in the world of daily affairs.
Mental habits of inward orientation must be established. An inner, secret turning to God can be made fairly steady after weeks and months and years of practice and lapses of failures and returns.
Kelly uses the term “simultaneity”, worship undergirding every moment, living prayer, the continuous current and background of all moments of life. Habitual divine orientation.

My part in simultaneity:
Heb.4:16 Let us then approach the throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need.

Col.3:1-2 Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.

1 Thes.5:16-18 Be joyful always; pray continually; give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus.

God’s part: Found in Psalm 139