The Diary of an Old Soul

Daily Readings by George MacDonald (1824 - 1905)

July 3

Not thine, my Lord, the darkness all is mine—

Save that, as mine, my darkness too is thine:

All things are thine to save or to destroy—

Destroy my darkness, rise my perfect joy;

Love primal, the live coal of every night,

Flame out, scare the ill things with radiant fright,

And fill my tent with laughing morn's delight.