April 13

Soul of our soul and safeguard of the world, Sustain, — Thou only canst.

THE soul needs for its fulness of life that sense which can only be called a sense of “creatureship” of most intimate dependence on One who is “dearer than father, mother, child, or spouse”; “closer than breathing, nearer than hands or feet”—the soul’s own soul, as it were; one “in whom we live and move and are,” not as a part lives and moves in the organism to which it belongs at the cost of its own freedom and individuality, but with an infinitely closer intimacy that yet saves our freedom and separateness; one to whom we are bound, not as word is bound to word in speech, but rather somewhat as the spoken word is bound to the thought which it incorporates, by which it is enveloped and permeated, and from which it can be severed only by some witless ear sensitive to the sound but dead to the sense.

FATHER TYRRELL

THE SOUL'S NEED