As a Haverford College transfer senior just arrived from Wilmington College of Ohio, Tom Kelly sat on the porch with Rufus M. Jones, Haverford’s Professor of Philosophy, looked up at him with radiant smile and said suddenly, “I’m just going to make my life a miracle!” It was only in the last three years of Tom Kelly’s life, the years in which I knew him, that the miracle came to full expression. He lived, to use his own term, a “God intoxicated life.” He brimmed over with the joy of the Lord. In spite of the darkness and death of World War II into which humankind was plunging, Thomas Kelly called us to, “Look to Him and be radiant” (Ps. 37:5). He went on to say, “Radiant with that radiance the Day Star can arise in astounding power and overcome the darkness both within and without, if we be wholly committed to the Light.”
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