Here is a link to Gutenberg.org where various free versions of "The Practice of the Presence of God" can be downloaded for Kindle, and other reading devices in e-book form or it can be read online:
Gutenberg Project - The Practice of the Presence of God by Brother Lawrence
Here is a link to "The Practice of the Presence of God" in audiobook formats and they are all free from Librivox.org in M4B audiobook or an MP3 Zip file for your iPod, or listen to it streaming on your computer.
Librivox Audiobooks-The Practice of the Presence of God
Here is a short bio on Brother Lawrence.
"He was born was born Nicholas Herman around 1610 in France. He fought in the Thirty Years War as a young soldier and sustained a near fatal injury to his sciatic nerve. The injury left him crippled and in chronic pain for the rest of his life. He was educated both at home and by his parish priest whose first name was Lawrence. He was well read and was drawn to a spiritual life of faith and love for God at an early age.
In the years between the abrupt end of his duties as a soldier and his entry into monastic life, he spent a period of time living in the wilderness and also some time in private service. During mid-life he entered a newly established monastery in Paris where he became the cook for the community. After fifteen years his duties were shifted to shoe repair, but he often returned to the busy kitchen to help out.
Brother Lawrence discovered and followed a pure, uncomplicated way to walk continually in God's presence. For some forty years, he lived and walked with Our Father at his side. Yet through his own words, we learn that Brother Lawrence's first ten years were full of severe trials and challenges.
A gentle man with a joyful spirit, Brother Lawrence shunned attention and the limelight. It was not until after his death that a few of his letters were collected. Joseph de Beaufort, counsel to the Paris archbishop, first published the letters in a small pamphlet. The following year in a second publication titled, 'The Practice of the Presence of God', de Beaufort included the content of four conversations he had with Brother Lawrence. In this small book of letters and conversations, Brother Lawrence simply and beautifully explains how to personally commune with God from the heart.
Brother Lawrence left the gift of a way to continually commune with the Father that is available to anyone who seeks to know God's peace and presence. Anyone regardless of age or circumstance can practice to presence of God anywhere, anytime. Brother Lawrence also left the gift of a direct approach to living in God's presence that is as practical today as it was three hundred years ago. Brother Lawrence died in 1691, having practiced God's presence for over forty years. His quiet death was much like his monastic life where each day and each hour was a new beginning and a fresh commitment to love God with all his heart."
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