Excerpted wisdom from a wise teacher

“The freedom of the Christian contemplative is not freedom from time, but freedom in time. It is the freedom to go out and meet God in the inscrutable mystery of God’s will here and now, in this precise moment in which God asks humanity’s cooperation in shaping the course of history according to the demands of divine truth, mercy and fidelity. . . .”

Adapted from Thomas Merton, Seeds of Destruction (Farrar, Straus and Giroux: 1964)