Practicing the Presence of God is a powerful spiritual approach to life. It means that you have cultivated such a strong sense of the Divine within during your spiritual practices (prayer, meditation, contemplation, etc.), that your very countenance shifts in everyday life.
I have known a few people who have attained that countenance - they are unfailingly kind and loving, and they are grounded in truth - that is, their kindness does not include the blind acceptance of ignorance or unkindness on the part of others. The countenance is one of a loving powerfulness. It is one that I seek to cultivate in my own life.
Practicing the Presence is the continuing awareness of Spirit within - and the determination to live a heart-centered life. To live and relate at depth and to free yourself from the turmoil and confusion of the surface of most thought - and of most relationships, is the result of this consciousness.
It brings to mind a line from Kipling's poem, "If": "If you can keep your head when all about you, men are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, and make allowance for their doubting, too."
This is an aspect of the outer effect of the inner countenance of Practicing the Presence. You go through the day with the realization of your own inner power right there in every breath - there is no need to fear, no need to project ego needs, no need to control.
So I cultivate this consciousness each day - seeking to find within myself that which is already present, awaiting my acknowledgement and embrace.
Love and Light,
Rev. Lockard
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