The passage below is excerpted from A Theology of Desire: Meditations on intimacy, consummation, and the longing of God. You can watch or listen to a reading of this passage here. Day 24: Unspeakable Joy Wherein you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been grieved in various trials, that the proof of your faith, which is more precious than gold that perishes even though it is tested by fire, may be found to result in praise, glory, and honor a