Give Thyself To Me

“...Thou, O God wilt enlighten my darkness: from Thee shall arise our vesture of light, and our darkness shall be as the mid-day.

Give Thyself to me, O my God, give Thyself once more to me. I love Thee: and if my love is too small a thing, grant me to love more intensely. I cannot measure, to know how much my love falls short of sufficiency, that my life should run to Thy embrace and never be turned away until it is hidden in the secret of Thy face. This only do I know, that it is ill with me when Thou art not with me—I do not mean by me, but in me; and that all abundance which is not my God to me is neediness.”  

~St. Augustine (from Confessions: Book XIII, Chapter VIII)