Reflections

“Praying to Christ for his friend, and longing to be heard by Christ for his friend’s sake,
he reaches out with devotion and desire to Christ Himself.
And suddenly and insensibly, affection passing into affection,
as though touched by the gentleness of Christ close at hand,
he begins to taste how sweet He is and to feel how lovely He is.
Thus, from that holy love with which he embraces his friend,
he rises to that by which he embraces Christ.”

(Aelred of Rievaulx)
 

“If I say,

‘Surely the darkness will overwhelm me, and the light around me will be night,’

even the darkness is not dark to You, and the night is as bright as the day.

Darkness and light are alike to You.

For You formed my inward parts;

You wove me in my mother’s womb.”


(from Psalm 139)