What
do you know?
And
the Lord said to me, "What is it that you know?" I was at first confounded
but then I answered saying, "I know so much, Lord." But when the Lord looked at
me in the way that He so often looks at me I realized that I knew so little. "I know
that I love you, Lord; and I know that the love which I give to you, you first gave to me;
and I know that the love I give to others is the love that you have given to me; and that
the more I give the more I have; and that the more I share, the richer I become; and I
know that I praise you for it, Lord, for you are the Love of which I speak. I
know, Lord that you are the care that I have for others; and you are the forgiveness that
I offer to those who harm me; and You are the joy that fills me to overflowing. These
are the things which I know, Lord. And the Lord smiled and
said, "You know all that you need to know, for with this knowledge you know all there
is to know." |