This is a beauty:

[mrs617]

' ...The shadows of the evening that precedes a lovelier morning are drawing down around us both. But our God is in the shadow as in the shine, and all is and will be well. Have we not seen His glory in the face of Jesus? and do we not know him a little? . . . This life is a lovely school time, but I never was content with it. I look for better --- oh, so far better! I think we do not yet know the joy of mere existence. To exist is to be a child of God; and to know it, to feel it, is to rejoice evermore. May the loving Father be near you and may you know it, and be perfectly at peace all the way into the home country, and to the palace home of the living one --- the Life of our life.

Next month I shall be 70, and I am humbler a good deal than when I was 29. To be rid of self is to have the heart bare to God and to the neighbour --- to have all life ours, and possess all things. I see in my mind's eye, the little children clambering up to sit on the throne with Jesus. My God, art Thou not as good as we are capable of imagining Thee? Shall we dream a better goodness than Thou hast ever thought of? Be Thyself, and all is well with us. ... '

George Macdonald
'An Expression of Character'