When I sit in the darkness

When I sit in the darkness of meditation,

Even the darkness and coldness of prison

Quietly…

My life communicates with God.

He whispers within when other forms

Of communication are lost.

"I see him within

When outerness is darkness.

Creator, create anew love within me,

Broken am I; begin thy repairing.

The triumph is this:

God, through my consciousness"

Begins a new world-reformation.

Amen:



Toyohiko Kagawa  (1888 – 1960)