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For He is with us “all the days and all day long.” The words come from something Bishop Moule said to the boys of Sherborne School: “A point of grammar can carry to us sometimes the very message of the Spirit. A tense, a case, a preposition, just because they are, in their measure, registers of the lightning-play of thought, may make all the difference to the force and fullness of a Scripture sentence. I do not think that I refine too much when I say that the original of ‘all the days,’ by the extending power of the accusatives, may justify the paraphrase, ‘I am with you all the days, and all day long.’”
There was a traveler who at first saw nothing of the light that was shining in the wood. After a while the thought moved softly—“I am with you all the days, and all day long.”
But just as a flower never presses its sweetness upon anyone but freely gives to him who desires it, and to him as often as he will, so that thought of peace did not force itself upon the traveler, and yet it did lovingly offer to his lips a cup of healing.
And then—but how it came to be so has never yet been told—the gloom of the darkness was gone, the light in the wood shone forth and the glory thereof.