of the young and of the sick. In the sound of the clock, the irrevocable progress of time.
"We can meditate by adoring the presence of God all around us, as we walk in the midst of Him, or as causing by His presence in each object we behold, its continued existence and its qualities of good."
St. Francis of Sales says: "As they that are enamored with human and natural love have almost always their thoughts fixed on the person beloved, their heart full of affection toward her, their mouth filled with her praise, and when their beloved is absent they lose no occasion to testify their passion by letters, and on every tree they meet they engrave the name of their beloved; — even so, such as love God can never cease to think upon Him, they breathe only for Him, they aspire only to Him, and speak only of Him, and, if k were possible, they would grave the sacred name of Our Lord Jesus on the breasts of all men in the world."
And all creatures invite them to this, each one in its kind declaring to them the praises of their Beloved; and, as St. Augustine says, "all things in this world speak to us in a kind of dumb language, yet intelligible enough, in praise of our Love; all things provoke us to good thoughts, from whence afterward arise many motions and aspirations of our soul to God."
St. Francis of Assisi, for instance, seeing a sheep all alone amidst a herd of goats, remarked to
