Glory

In her book titled Abba Evelyn Underhill shows how the Lord Jesus is clothed in all the things that we experience in life. As we look through them to see Him alone we find rest:

"The appeal of man's prayer is to a Reality which is beyond manifestation. All these are Thine; but we reach out to Thee. Beyond the wall of contradiction, beyond the 'Light that is not God,' almost imperceptible to the attentive creature and yet the ground of its being and goal of its prayer, is the secret Presence; the Thou in whom all things inhere, by whom all live.

"Behind every closed door that seems to shut experience from us He is standing; and within every experience which reaches us, however disconcerting, His unchanging presence is concealed. Not in the wind which sweeps over the face of existence to change it, not in the earthquake which makes sudden havoc of our ordered life, not in the overwhelming splendour and fury of the elemental fire: in none of these, but in the 'voice of gentle stillness,' speaking from within the agony and bewilderment of life, we recognize the presence of the Holy and the completing answer to the soul's completed prayer.

"We accept Thy Majesty, we rejoice in Thy Power and Thy Glory; but in Thine unchanging quiet is our trust. We look beyond the spiritual to Spirit, beyond the soul's country to the personal Origin and Father of its life."