Jessica Sacks's Reviews > Centuries Of Meditations

"An empty book is like an Infant's Soul, in which anything may be written. It is capable of all things, but containeth nothing. I have a mind to fill this with profitable wonders. And since Love made you put it into my hands I will fill it with those Truths you love without knowing them: and with those things which, if it be possible, shall shew my Love; to you, in communicating most enriching Truths: to Truth, in exalting her beauties in such a Soul."

Traherne is true to his word. A gift of overwhelming love and wonder. For anyone interested in devotional writing that is joyful, original, creative and intelligent, without sentimentality. Left me wondering whether such writing is still possible today; I think quite possibly not, and at any rate I have never read any contemporary religious writing that comes close.