February 5

CHARITY is the grace of God

Your constant love reaches the heavens;
your faithfulness extends to the skies…
Your justice is like the depths of the sea…
You are the source of all life,
and because of your light we see the light.  ~ Psalm 36:5-7, 9

In his play Long Day’s Journey into Night, Eugene O’Neill has Edmund describe a mystical experience. 

Actually, it was one that O’Neill himself had one night on a square-rigger bound for Buenos Aires.  He wrote:

“For a moment, I lost myself…  I became the white sails and flying spray, became the beauty and the rhythm, became the moonlight and the ship and the dim-starred sky!  I belonged…  within something greater than my own life…  To God if you want.”  ~ Mark Link, S.J.

What is the closest thing I have ever had to an experience similar to O’Neill’s?

I was snatched up to the highest heaven…
I heard things which cannot be put into words.
~ 2 Corinthians 12:2-4

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