God and His Creatures

Talking in our human fashion, we would say that the first creatures God would think of creating would be those most like Him, the angels; and then the things most unlike Him, all the world beneath man. For the angels are, like God, pure spirits whose life is a white heat of knowing and loving, independent of all but God, strangers to death; while the world beneath man is a spiritless world, incapable of the intellect's soaring and the heart's surrender, dependent in every moment and in every activity on the things around it and beneath it, constantly devastated by death and renewed by birth. The wonder to our minds is that divine ingenuity should ever have hit upon such creatures as ourselves: both spirit and matter, dissatisfied with anything less than infinite truth and yearning for love's holocaust, dependent on all the world beneath us yet scorning the limitations of time and space with mind and heart, saddened by death and inspired by birth, yet both terrified and rejioced by the certainty of eternal life.

My Way of Life
- Confraternity of the Precious Blood