18. Lover and friend hast thou put far from me. Even when they are near me bodily, they are so unable to swim with me
in such deep waters that they stand like people far away on the shore while I
am buffeted with the billows; alas, the dearest lover of all is afraid of such
a distracted one. The Lord Jesus knew the meaning of this when in his passion.
Lonely sorrow falls to the lot of not a few; let them not repine, but enter
herein into close communion with that dearest lover and friend who is never far
from his tried ones. And mine acquaintance into darkness, or better
still, “my acquaintance is darkness.” I am
familiar only with sadness; all else has vanished. I am a child crying alone in
the dark. Will the Heavenly Father leave his child there?
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