Thursday, June 18, 2009

Joy! Joy! Joy!


"In the year of grace 1654 Monday 23 November, the day of St.Clement, Pope and Martyr..... from about half-past ten in the evening till about half and hour after midnight. FIRE! God of Abraham. God of Isaac. God of Jacob. Not of the philosophers and the learned. Certainty. Joy. Certainty. Emotion. Sight. Joy. Forgetfulness of the world and of all outside of God. The world has not known Thee. Joy! Joy! Joy! Tears of joy! My God, will you leave me? Let me not every be separated from you." Blaise Pascal

"Though you have not seen him, you love him; and even though you do not see him now, you believe in him and are filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy..." I Peter 1:8