The Singular Pursuit of God

Is it easier for one person to find God?

Judging from your situation, you can guess that one person probably has more leisure time than married people. Family responsibilities especially child care and supervision can take many days. Yet, individually often find their lives consumed with busyness too.

In the United States, unmarried and single people 15 and older account for 43 percent of all residents, or 95.7 million people, according to U.S. Census Bureau. And of that number, 28.8 million singles living alone. Worldwide, millions of single people living alone.

But they are all one people who live alone carried out God? Only they know for sure. Many who are on a spiritual quest does not attend church regularly or at all. May they fall through the cracks in the survey or census reports, because they do not want to answer such questions, or do not identify with any religious group.

Consider for a moment how you spend your time. Most of us spend eight to ten hours at work and back. We sleep seven or eight o'clock in the evening. Subtract the second hour of cooking, dishes, and cleaning. Take an hour to each day for bathing, shaving, grooming, and bathroom visits. Subtract one hour for watching TV news and reading newspapers, and another hour to read popular magazines or surfing the Internet.

Various chores such as doing laundry, picking out clothes for work, cleaning the house or apartment, buying groceries or gas your car will cost at least an hour every day. See the drama, sport, or a pair of sitcoms on TV and you do not have time for God.

Whether you are single or married, you have to in It's time for a relationship with God, and how much time you have set aside shows how much importance you place on that part of your life. However, the is solution. In his short book, "The Practice of God's presence," the seventeenth century French Carmelite known as Brother Lawrence tells you how to pursue God, even the busiest days.

Brother Lawrence served as a kitchen helper in the Discalced Carmelite convent in Paris, from 1640 until his death in 1691. Cooking a meal for 100 friars, using an open fire and brick ovens, he promised that he would not be so consumed with his duties to push God out of your life. So he talked to God continually throughout the day.

No matter how busy you are, you can customize his brother Lawrence, a simple strategy to focus his life on step, of course, to re-commit to this most important of all relationships. Then, start talking to God throughout the day. These short talks May not seem like a prayer, but they are. Thank God for my job and income it provides. Ask for his guidance before making.Vise bring God into their daily activities, the more you'll feel his presence.

Second, keep your work to unite with God. Regardless of the type of job you have May, honest labor brings dignity to you. It also gives you the opportunity to help others, whether they are your customers or associates. Your attitude can change your job from strenuous exercise in obedience to the progress of their spiritual maturity.

Third, remember that this is only an eternal aspect of your life is your relationship with will earn you small or May be required, but you can not take them with you in this life. By focusing instead on God and His love for you, gradually you will realize your purpose for being here.

Fourth, learn to trust God. Brother Lawrence's simple, childlike faith in the Creator. May you feel that your education or sophistication requires more intellectual approach to God. But that's not what God requires. When you recognize him as her love, forgiveness, Father, you will make a big leap on the path to true wisdom.

Finally, to persevere. Brother Lawrence was a practical man who understood how our mind can travel and what it's like to have a short attention span. He advised the forgiving attitude towards ourselves for these mistakes. God is pleased with any effort to make closer to him. Just as a parent encourage a child who stumbles and falls, God lifts us up to try again and again.

Whether you are married or single, you can can to make time in your life to God. He will even be a weak attempt to give you a peace filled, the amazing feeling of his presence. As the father of the prodigal son, he is waiting and watching for you to come home.