DAILY CONTEMPLATION

September 30, 2026 ~ Thoout 20, 1743

“In Him was life, and the life was the light of men.” (Jn 1:4)
Do you presume upon your strength? By the wild beasts you are surpassed.
Upon your swiftness do you presume? By the flies you are surpassed.
Upon your beauty do you presume? How great beauty is there in the feathers of a peacock!
Wherein then are you better? In the image of God.
Where is the image of God? In the mind, in the intellect.
If then you are in this respect better than the cattle,
that you have a mind by which you may understand what the cattle cannot understand;
and therein a man, because better than the cattle;
the light of men is the light of minds.
The light of minds is above minds and surpasses all minds.
This was that life by which all things were made.
St. John Climacus