. And then again
I feel as if I could sit beside him, and put my arms around him,
kiss him, etc. When I am taking Holy Communion at the altar, I
try to get with him and generally feel his presence."
I let a few other cases follow at random:--
"God surrounds me like the physical atmosphere. He is closer to
me than my own breath. In him literally I live and move and have
my being."--
"There are times when I seem to stand in his very presence, to
talk with him. Answers to prayer have come, sometimes direct and
overwhelming in their revelation of his presence and powers.
There are times when God seems far off, but this is always my own
fault."--
"I have the sense of a presence, strong, and at the same time
soothing, which hovers over me. Sometimes it seems to enwrap me
with sustaining arms."
Such is the human ontological imagination, and such is the
convincingness of what it brings to birth. Unpicturable beings
are realized, and realized with an intensity almost like that of
an hallucination. They determine our vital attitude as
decisively as the vital attitude of lovers is determined by the
habitual sense, by which each is haunted, of the other being in
the world.
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