Merton and Winter Time

"Woke up in the hermitage and walked out to see snow on the ground, with the wind blowing snowflakes around my bare ankles. Let the fire and said Lauds. No trouble seeing the way down in the dark with snow on the ground!

The Christian faith enables, or should enable, a [person] to stand back from society and its institutions and realize that they all stand under the inscrutable judgment of God and that therefore we can never give an unreserved assent to the policies, the programs and the organizations of [people], or to 'official' interpretations of the historic process."

DANCING IN THE WATER OF LIFE THE JOURNALS OF THOMAS MERTON Volume Five
1963-1965, page 171. Merton wrote this on November 30, 1964.

What does my Christian faith direct me to do in day by day things?

Wayne Burns Merton Quote of the Day
From: wayne burns <wayneburnsB@webtv.net
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 07:44:36 -0500