I am currently reading Thomas Merton's "No Man Is An Island". The way he phrases the most simplest of ideas is so incredibly beautiful. They stop me in brief, fragments of time...pondering about how effective I am as a person, how loving I am, and how forgiving I've become. The following is one of my favourite clusters of sentences thus far (even though I'm not very deep into the book yet!): "If He (God) is good, and if my intelligence is His gift, then I must show my trust in His goodness by making use of my intelligence. I must let faith elevate, heal, and transform the light of my mind. If He is merciful, and if my freedom is a gift of His mercy, I must show my trust in His mercy by making use of my free will. I must let hope and charity purify and strengthen my human liberty and raise me to the glorious autonomy of a son of God." There's quite a lot to tug at in your soul after digesting some of the stuff he writes. Too good.
AND too much thinking at 1:26 AM! Wow. But all this thinking has been fruitful (it produced my second post within one week!) Progress!
Go to sleep, Anna.
























