from
THE CROWN OF THE YEAR
Weekly Paragraphs for the Holy Sacrament
By Austin Farrer
Dacre Press, Westminster
EPIPHANY iv
WE read that God’s creation is completed by the making
of man, and that looking upon all that he has made, God sees it to be very
good. We turn a few pages and find something different: It repented
God that he had made man, for the imagination of the thought of man’s heart
was evil continually. Nevertheless God’s delight in the work of his
hands prevails. He rejoices infinitely in having made you; what is
more, he rejoices in the you that he has made, in spite of the pitiful
imaginations of the thoughts of your evil heart. For his crown of
satisfaction in what he has made is satisfaction in his beloved Son, and
you are in his Son. God can look upon the man he has made, and find
his work good, because he looks upon the man Jesus Christ, and sees the
Son of his love, in whom he is well pleased. God’s delight in you
is immeasurable, because Christ is in you, and you are in Christ.
You do not see it, but he sees it. Be at one with Christ, and fulfil
the delight of God’s heart.
