Day 082u: Sauntering to the Sacred … (July 05, 2019)
After dinner, we are all invited to a private tour of a nearby local church, where the less-than-humble intentions of the accompanying priest were not nearly as powerful or holy as his service’s “moment of silence” …
“There is something in the very depths of our being that yearns for wholeness. And because we are indeed made to empower Oneness (and thereby come to both have & know a truer eternal life), it is just as true that we are made to act in such a way that gathers up all the powers and capacities of our being and offers them selflessly, & in truth self-sacrificially, to any & all nearby (and thereby more truly to God). The blind spiritual instinct that tells us obscurely that our owns lives have a particular importance and purpose, and which subtly yet potently compels us to rediscover and enliven our vocation, seeks in so doing to bring us to a decision that will dedicate our lives irrevocably to their truest purpose. And so it is that the one who loses this sense of his own personal destiny, and who as such abdicates his call to love stranger & family member & enemy alike – and as such thereby renounces all hope he or she might have of fulfilling any kind of higher purpose in life, has in truth abandoned all hope of knowing what it is to be truly happy or know lasting peace.” ~ inspired by Thomas Merton
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