“Merton Monday”

“Merton Monday”

“But when we have to renounce our plans and aspirations for the highest and most spiritual goods and devote ourselves, under obedience or out of charity, to some trivial and distracting series of far less perfect tasks, then the sacrifice can be supremely difficult.  It is all the more so when it turns out that our spirit of faith, being far less pure than we imagined, is not strong enough to enable us to see God’s will in duties that do not flatter our self-esteem.”

Thomas Merton – The Waters of Siloe