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FATHER DE BEAUFORT met with Brother Lawrence several times while the crippled brother was in his fifties. Read the first page
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Format:Paperback
Not yet read this fully but have flicked through and it looks really lovely. Modern translation. short chapters responding tot he letters of Brother Lawrence. Looks full of good sense advice on practicing the presence of God - look forward to reading it properly and benefitting from wise advice.
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20 of 20 people found the following review helpful
Deep enough to change your thinking.
10 Feb 2005
Format:Paperback
This book attracted my attention immediately. I've heard of Brother Lawrence for twenty years, but each time I read a piece by him, I bogged down in the archaic language. Elmer takes the meat of Brother Lawrence's philosophy/religious tenets and puts them in words I can relate to. I intend to read this small volume several times. The first time was rewarding, but the material is so rich, it requires at least a second read to absorb the finer points.
47 of 53 people found the following review helpful
Missed Opportunity
27 April 2005
Format:Paperback
This is a really weak and uninspired translation - really a rewriting - of Brother Lawrence's classic little book. The author/translator says that this is a "thought-for-thought" translation rather than a literal one, and admits that this is a risky proposition. He's right that it's risky, especially when a writer is careless and takes unwarranted license with a text, and unfortunately he's failed in his attempt. It could and should have been otherwise. The author goes overboard trying to make the book sound contemporary, filling it with American colloquialisms and excessive informality to the point that it often sounds like a trivial conversation between teenagers ("let's bulldoze the dike that holds back God's flood," "let's cash in lost time," "if death is tailgating us, we need to be ready," "life offers no `do-overs'," don't look for the pleasure payoff," and on and on). There are places where subject and verb don't agree and other grammatical or stylistic errors cause a lack of clarity. When a writer allows himself great license, he can't blame problems like these on the original text. The author has been a news reporter and advertising copywriter, and it shows. This is too important a book to be treated with this much sloppiness and irreverence. I'm surprised at NavPress for letting this one slip through, and I strongly suggest that you buy a better version (the Whitaker House version, for example, is better and cheaper).
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Focusing on Him
5 Feb 2005
Format:Paperback
This is a book to be read and reread, along with Scripture, to draw us focus on Christ and help us become totally sold-out for Him.
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