What am I heading for?
Where am I going?
The answer to that one is:
I don’t need to know.
All these troubles come from mistrusting the love of God. Shall I start asking myself all those same questions all over again? God knows what He wants to do with me.
Rest in his tremendous love – to know the savor and sweetness of God’s love expressed from moment to moment in all the contacts between Him and your soul – from outside in events in His signified will and will of good pleasure, from within myself by the flow of actual graces.
Rest in that union.
It will feed you, fill you with life.
There is nothing else you need.
He will show you the way to increase it, and, if necessary, He will lead you into perfect solitude in His own good time.
Leave it all to him.
Live in the present.
(Merton, Journals, July 3 and 4, 1947, II.89-90)
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Rest in his tremendous love – to know the savor and sweetness of God’s love expressed from moment to moment in all the contacts between Him and your soul – from outside in events in His signified will and will of good pleasure, from within myself by the flow of actual graces.
Rest in that union.
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How often I wrestle the love of God. I know it’s there, but it’s like underwear, it’s just something you have on every day.
I want to wear God’s love like a special piece of jewelry that has great meaning, and though I wear it every day it never gets old or tiresome.
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I like these reflections on Merton’s writings. Very good and a nice way to begin a week.
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“I don’t need to know.” Great reminder.
Success for Christians = Submission to Christ.
-Marshall Jones Jr.
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