If You Love Me, Do Not Weep

If you love me, do not weep. If you only knew the gift of God and what Heaven is! If only you could hear the angels' song from where you are, and see me amoung them! If only you could see before your eyes the eternal fields with their horizons, and the new paths in which I walk! If only you could comtemplate for one moment the Beauty that I see, Beauty before which all others fall and fade!

Why do you who saw me and loved me in the land of shadows, why do you think you will not see me and love me again in the land of unchanging realities?

Believe me when death breaks your chains as it has broken mine, when, on that day, chosen by God, your soul reaches Heaven where I have proceeded you, then you will see him who loved and still loves you. You will find his heart the same, his tenderness even purer than before.

God forbid that entering a happier life, I should become less loving, unfaithful to the memories and real joys of my other life. You will see me again transfigured in esctasy and happiness, no longer waiting for death, but ever hand in hand with you, walking in the new paths of light and life, my thirst to the full at the feet of God from a fount of which one never tires, and which you will come to shape with me.

Wipe away the tears, and if you love me truly, weep no more.

~St. Augustine
Submitted By Jackie