DAILY CONTEMPLATION

October 3, 2026 ~ Thoout 23, 1743

God did not make the world as a carpenter makes a chest.
The chest which he makes is outside the carpenter,
and so it is put in another place;
and although the workman is near, he sits in another place,
and is external to that which he fashions.
But God, infused into the world, fashions it;
being everywhere present He fashions, and withdraws not Himself elsewhere,
nor does He, as it were, handle from without, the matter which He fashions.
By the presence of His majesty He makes what He makes;
His presence governs what He made.
St. Augustine