A paire of bedes blacke as sable She toke and hynge my necke about, Upon the gaudees all without Was wryte of gold, pur reposer

So an otherward movement akin to searching all things, “even the deep things of God,” is not too unrelated to another key aspect of the divine love: everyone who “abideth in charity abideth in God and God in him” (referring to 1 John 4:16).

The words that were said every day to others would be said to him, in that quiet consulting room whose desk and carpet and square modern armchair would share indissolubly in the moment.

True, there were a dismaying number of these in Rockland County, and each year brought more as high-rise condominiums and $2 million tract homes were being constructed along the scenic river or gouged out of rolling farmland.