September 11

Our expanding knowledge does not dim our faith, it only shows the size of God's creation. Often we cannot understand. There is a beautiful example in the life of St.Augustine who was struggling to understand God, to understand the Trinity, to understand the magnitude of God's creation. His human mind could not grasp it. Then he came upon a small boy who was trying to fill water in a hole in the ground. St.Augustine asked him what he was doing and the boy said: "I am trying to fill this hole with water." St.Augustine said that it was impossible. Then the child who, in truth, was an angel, said: "It is still easier to put the ocean into this hole than for you to understand the mystery of God."