May 16
Companions of the Way (Morning)Jesus will be in agony even to the end of the world. We must not sleep during that time.
EARTH rings with the miserable truth of life wandering and with the triumphant truth of life being succoured, life His and ours and every creature's, all in one whole of striving, hindered love. Yet when suffering overtakes me, His child, the darkening cloud comes and hides His fellowship of suffering. I think of His life as cut off from my own, a thing apart; and I call upon a far-away God, or a Father in Heaven outside myself, to remove the pain from me, not knowing that it is His pain as well as mine. He bears, not sends, our griefs; He carries, not inflicts, our sorrows; and in all our affliction He too is afflicted. It would make of us men indeed, open-eyed sons of God, if we could realise this marvel of incarnation and feel ourselves one with Him in the pain of the world, and in the toil of its redeeming.
A. Modern Mystic's Way
GOD WITH US