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Living Presence: A Guide to Everyday Awareness of God by Marshall Davis
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Overview: This book is about living every moment in the Presence of God. It is a call to spiritual awakening. What this book describes is not science fiction, but spiritual reality. It is an invitation to see the universe as it really is. It is a summons to discover a spiritual Truth that is hiding in plain sight. It is pointed to in many spiritual traditions of the world, and especially the Christian tradition.
The Jewish and Christian scriptures are filled with examples of people who woke up. The Hebrew patriarch Jacob woke up physically and spiritually during a night in the wilderness. After having a vision of a portal between heaven and earth, Jacob exclaimed, “Surely the Lord is in this place, and I did not know it.” And he was afraid and said, “How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven!” (Genesis 28:16-17)
Enoch was the first to wake up. Job woke up. Moses was awakened when he saw a bush burning with an eternal flame. The message he heard was “I AM.” The apostle Paul woke up while traveling on a road to Damascus. Most famously Jesus woke up while being baptized in the Jordan River. He proceeded to proclaim the message of spiritual awakening. He called it the Kingdom of God.
This clear and direct awareness of the presence of God is not just for prophets and apostles. This is available to anyone. Jesus knew this Reality and prayed that his followers may know this for themselves. He prayed, “that they all may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You; that they also may be one in Us.… that they may be one just as We are one: I in them, and You in Me; that they may be made perfect in one….” (John 17:21-23)
Across the centuries contemplatives in the Christian tradition have called this “union with God.” The apostle Paul called it “having the mind of Christ” (I Corinthians 2:16) and “the eyes of your understanding being enlightened.” (Ephesians 1:18) It is a constant awareness of oneness with the Divine. The seventeenth century monk Brother Lawrence called it simply “the Presence of God.”
Other traditions use terms like enlightenment, liberation, release, or freedom. Christians tend to use the word “God” to point to this Absolute Reality. But Christian thinkers like Paul Tillich use terms like Being, Being Itself, and the Ground of Being. Whatever words one uses, it is clear that this is a phenomenon that transcends religious boundaries and definitions.
This direct awareness of God is here now. This book describes this consciousness in Christian terms, using Biblical scriptures and examples. It is addressed primarily to Christians. This author is a Christian speaking to Christians in the context of the gospel of Jesus Christ.
But this book intended to reach beyond the Christian faith community. It transcends religion and points to a spiritual awareness of Divine Reality that refuses to be imprisoned by human names and definitions. When Moses insisted on having a divine name to use in his preaching, the Divine One replied, “I WHO I AM. Tell them I AM sent you.” The only way to know who we truly are is to know I AM. This book is an invitation to awake to that Reality and become a “new creation.”
Genre: Non-Fiction > Faith, Beliefs & Philosophy
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