Contemplation Blog 15

Contemplation of St. Augustine (15)

Blog 15

I plead, tell me where You are? Where can I meet You, to hide in You totally and cannot be anywhere but in You!

“You are my Lord, My goodness is nothing apart from You” (Psalm 16:2)

O! Hurry and make my soul Your dwelling and my heart Your resting place.

Come...for I am sick with love.

“If you find my beloved, that you tell him I am lovesick” (Song 5:8)

And my distance away from You is death to me, but Your name brings life to my soul!

“Christ who is our life” (Col 3:4)

Why do You hide Your face from me.

“Truly You are God, who hide Yourself, O God of Israel, the Savior” (Isaiah 45:15)

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Fr. Tadros Y. Malaty, God is my Paradise: Divine Love 1 (St. Mark’s Coptic Orthodox Church, NJ, 1995)