“you can’t reason with grief

it has no ears to hear you.”

***

“Funny.

The world won’t let you keep your faith

But it won’t let you lose it, either.”

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from The Women of Lockerbie, a play by Deborah Brevoort.

One of the comments on my last post reminded me of this prayer of Thomas Merton’s:

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 that 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 that 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 will I trust you always

though I may seem to be lost and in the shadow of death.

I will not fear, for you are ever with me,

and you will never leave me to face my perils alone.”

“Our love should reach as widely across all space, and should be as equally distributed in every portion of it, as is the very light of the sun.christ has been us to attain the perfection of our heavenly Father by imitating his indiscriminant bestowal of light.”
-Simone Weil