August 28, 2016

TOLLE  LEGE, TOLLE  LEGE 

You mean to tell me, you haven’t

read Augustine’s Confessions yet?

“Tolle lege, tolle lege….” those

were the sing song words he heard

in the garden that day. “Take! Read!”

So he picked up and read, Paul’s
Letter to the Romans 13:13-14:

“Let us conduct ourselves properly,

as people who live in the light of day -

no orgies or drunkenness,

no immorality or indecency,

no fighting or jealousy.
But put on the Lord Jesus Christ

and make no provision to satisfy

the desires of the flesh.”

“Tolle lege” Augustine’s Confessions

and like everyone who reads them,

you too will say, “Too late I loved you,

O Beauty ever ancient and ever new.
Too late I loved you! And, behold,

you were within me, and I out of

myself and there I searched for you.”

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2016