August 12

He knoweth the way that I take; when He hath tried me I shall come forth as gold.

AFTER this He shewed a sovereign pleasance in my soul. I was fulfilled with the everlasting sureness, mightily sustained without any painful dread. This feeling was so glad . . . that I was in all peace and in rest, that there was nothing on earth that should have grieved me. This lasted but a while, and I was turned and left to myself in heaviness, and weariness of my life, and irksomeness of myself, that scarcely I could have patience to live. . . . And in the time of joy I might have said with Saint Paul: Nothing shall dispart me from the charity of Christ; and in the pain I might have said with Peter: Lord, save me: I perish! . . .

This Vision was shewed me . . . that it is speedful to some souls to feel on this wise: sometime to be in comfort, and some to fail and to be left to themselves. . . . For profit of man's soul, a man is sometime left to himself; although sin is not always the cause: for in this time I sinned not wherefore I should be left to myself. Also I deserved not to have this blessed feeling. But freely our Lord giveth when He will; and suffereth us to be in woe sometime. And both is one love.

JULIAN THE AN- CHORESS

ONE LOVE