To be near unto God - pagina 80

Lord, is the fountain of life," or "In Thy light shall we see light," or "The Lord is the Sun of soul," it all means: With God the soul has

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The source of all it is dead. power is God. Everything, in brief, that makes the sun unspeakably precious in the world of nature God is to the heart and to all human life. With Him we are aboundingly rich and radiantly happy. Without Him we are poor and naked and cold. The sun, moreover, not only nourishes the ground by his warmth, but by his radiant light When the evening exhibits and colors life. shadows lengthen everything assumes a dull and But dawn brings friendly nebulous aspect. light, by which all things assume proportions, distances are measured, forms and colors are life;

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recognized. And as it takes on brightness all And God does nature speaks to the heart. Where He is hidden all this for the inner life. from blinded eyes, life is a somber grey, without point of departure, direction or aim. All knowledge and insight fails. Courage to go on grows faint. Inspiration to finish the course gives way. And nothing rests save groping for the wall as one blind; withdrawing within oneself in cheerless, helpless solitude; the loss of knowledge; the loss of self consciousness; the privation of color and outline. life as in the graveyard, where weeds thrive, snakes lurk about, and the shriek of the nightbird startles. Until God rolls the clouds away, and the sun rises again in the soul, and when as by the touch of a magic wand everything becomes new, and light dispels inner darkness, and peace with a friendly hand opens wide the door of the troubled mind, so that by the light of God's

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