… and in this moment think, think that if you would embrace unto God and make her yours, and yours alone, that she be thence only yours, where there be no other place in your heart, in your soul, but for her. And that be your truth, and your covenant unto her.

And if your heart be thus in deed, and in thought — the most high, the truest of the true — you would then, and it would seem all at once, behold her purest glory, as like the brightest rays of a dawning sun following the darkest and deepest of nights. 

And, upon being encompassed within the rising, most radiant, most dazzling of her good light you would be astonished to already find her there, bathed in her embrace unto you. 

And she would then say to you that you are already hers, and hers alone, that you have always been hers, where there could be no other place in her heart, in her soul, in her thought, but for you, from all time immemorial past, and present, and forever more.

If you would but take that moment to think…. and make her yours. 

… *cogito ergo deus est*

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Fife Coastal Path, between Elie and Lower Largo, Scotland, U.K. ~ 11 June 2023