The Diary of an Old Soul

Daily Readings by George MacDonald (1824 - 1905)

October 23

Things cannot look all right so long as I

Am not all right who see—therefore not right

Can see. The lamp within sends out the light

Which shows the things; and if its rays go wry,

Or are not white, they must part show a lie.

The man, half-cured, did men not trees conclude,

Because he moving saw what else had seemed a wood.