High or Low Tide

When the soul is down, like a ship when the tide is low, it is in danger of shoals and sandbanks; but when the tide is up, there are no sandbanks, because the ship is lifted up above them all. Thus when the soul is happy in Christ, it will go on peacefully, independent of all the trials we may be called to meet with in our fellow saints.... And thus going on in the tide of divine goodness, forgetting everything else, we can walk happily together, being occupied with Christ; and not with each other.