The Steam Of Meat Darkens

... The More Have Been Your Trials, Look For A More Perfect Reward From Your Just Judge. Do Not Take Your Present Troubles Ill. Do Not Lose Hope. Yet A Little While And Your Helper Will Come To You And Will Not Tarry (cf. Hab. 2:3).

Now, If You Notice How The Swan, Putting Its Neck Down Into The Deep Water, Brings Up Food For Itself From Below, Then You Will Discover The Wisdom Of The Creator, In That He Gave It A Neck Longer Than Its Feet For This Reason, That It Might, As If Lowering A Sort Of Fishing Line, Procure The Food Hidden In The Deep Water.

You Can See That A City Is Prosperous By The Wealth Of Goods For Sale In The Market. Land Too We Call Prosperous If It Bears Rich Fruit. And So Also The Soul May Be Counted Prosperous If It Is Full Of Good Works Of Every Kind.

Through The Holy Spirit Comes Our Restoration To Paradise, Our Ascension Into The Kingdom Of Heaven, Our Return To The Adoption Of Sons, Our Liberty To Call God Our Father, Our Being Made Partakers Of The Grace Of Christ, Our Being Called Children Of Light, Our Sharing In Eternal Glory, And, In A Word, Our Being Brought Into A State Of All "fulness Of Blessing," Both In This World And In The World To Come, Of All The Good Gifts That Are In Store For Us, By Promise Hereof, Through Faith, Beholding The Reflection Of Their Grace As Though They Were Already Present, We Await The Full Enjoyment.

The Bread You Store Up Belongs To The Hungry; The Cloak That Lies In Your Chest Belongs To The Naked; The Gold You Have Hidden In The Ground Belongs To The Poor.