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When It Seems Dark . . . Trust
I picked up another Thomas Merton book the other evening. It's entitled The Intimate Merton. It's been a great read so far. Patrick Hart and Jonathan Montaldo culled out one book's worth of journal entries from seven volumes of Merton's personal journals. Good stuff. As is often the case, I was reading along and this quote struck me probably due to a lot of stuff I'm thinking about and dealing with these days.
We do not see the way that lies ahead of us. It seems dark, but God is the Master of all destinies and His will is love. Let us then put aside everything else and trust ourselves completely to Him, giving ourselves to His love, asking Him to enlighten and guide us in the way of positive action, if any such action is feasible. For the rest, we must have great patience and sustained fidelity to His will and to our ideals. (Letter to Evora Arca de Sardinia, Witness to Freedom)
:: Bryan :: 6:04 PM ::
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