What music I am listening to: Beethoven, Symphony No. 7. My favorite Beethoven symphony, next to the 9th (because, let's face it- the 9th Symphony is one of the greatest artistic achievements of humankind.)
The following is a quote from Thomas Merton, a Trappist monk who is one of my favorite spiritual writers. I found it today, amongst my ever-growing stack of papers. It sums up everything I am feeling right now. I want so desperately to know God, to worship at God's feet, to worship among the mighty cloud of witnesses. I know I fall short of this goal; I know that my sins and general shortcomings make me unworthy of God's love. But God loves me, all the same. Perhaps someday I will be willing to accept it.
"My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot know for certain where it will end. Nor do I really know myself and the fact that I think I am following your will does not mean that I am actually doing so. But I believe that the desire to please you does in fact please you. And I hope I have that desire in all that I am doing. I hope that I will never do anything apart from your desire. And I know that if I do this you will lead me by the right road though I may know nothing about it. Therefore, I will trust you always though I may seem to be lost and in the shadow of death. I will not fear, for you you are ever with me and you will never leave me to face my peril alone."
-- Thomas Merton
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