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  CONFESSIONS - BOOK XI - CHAPTER XXIX
  by St. Augustine
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39. But \"since thy loving-kindness is better than life itself,\"[450]
observe how my life is but a stretching out, and how thy right hand has
upheld me in my Lord, the Son of Man, the Mediator between thee, the
One, and us, the many--in so many ways and by so many means. Thus
through him I may lay hold upon him in whom I am also laid hold upon;
and I may be gathered up from my old way of life to follow that One and
to forget that which is behind, no longer stretched out but now pulled
together again--stretching forth not to what shall be and shall pass
away but to those things that are before me. Not distractedly now, but
intently, I follow on for the prize of my heavenly calling,[451] where I
may hear the sound of thy praise and contemplate thy delights, which
neither come to be nor pass away.

But now my years are spent in mourning.[452] And thou, O Lord, art my
comfort, my eternal Father. But I have been torn between the times, the
order of which I do not know, and my thoughts, even the inmost and
deepest places of my soul, are mangled by various commotions until I
shall flow together into thee, purged and molten in the fire of thy
love.

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