You stretched forth from above and drew up my soul from the dark abyss. You lifted me up and I realized there was something to see but I wasn't quite capable of seeing it. My vision was too weak to stand the radiance of your glory, and I trembled with a combination of love and dread... This was no ordinary light of day, visible to the naked eye, nor was it an intensifying of that light to the nth degree. It was not floating over my mind as oil floats above water, or as the sky is over the earth. Rather it was something altogether different. It was over me because it made me, and I was beneath it because I was made by it. But everyone who knows the truth knows that Light, and he who knows it knows it forever. It is the Light of love. -Augustine #jesus #light #life #love #theway