As part of a DTS class, I am reading Anselm's Proslogion, which is his argument for the existence of God. It is a fantastic read and I especially like his closing paragraph:
O God, I pray that I will know and love you that I might rejoice in you. And if I cannot do so fully in this life, I pray that I might grow day by day until my joy comes to fullness. Let the knowledge of you grow in me here, and there let it be full. Let your love grow in me here, and there let it be full, so that my joy here is great in hope, and my joy there is full in reality. O Lord, by your Son you command us--or rather, you counsel us--to ask, and you promise that we will receive, "that our joy may be full." Lord, I ask that you counsel us through our "Wonderful Counselor" (Isaiah 9:6). Let me receive what you promise through your truth, "that my joy may be full." O truthful God, I ask that I may receive, "that my joy may be full." Until then, let my mind ponder on it, my tongue speak of it. Let my heart love it and my mouth proclaim it. Let my soul hunger for it, my flesh thirst for it, my whole being long for it, until I "enter into the joy of the Lord," who is God, Three in One, "blessed for ever. Amen" (Romans 1:25).
