In recent months I have been reading Thomas Merton's journals. I find them a type of spiritual, mental, and emotional sustenance. This morning the paragraph that struck me talked about the best part of his retreat/day being working in the pig barn and then walking in the quiet cold and snow the mile and a half back to his place of solitude. Perhaps this is a part of why I am relishing feeling internally like I described yesterday (still cold quiet ... in a good way!)
I also read a paragraph where he describes how necessary it is for him to wake up with the dawn. How whatever is going on in him and in the world, waking up with the dawn brings him an awareness of "DAY" which trumps the drama and rush of life. He said it much more poetically of course.
I did not wake up with the dawn this morning. But I am here at a coffee shop before work. And it is winter and I still feel that "winter stillness". New days, new moments, and solitary time are crucial to my sanity and soul. And I am so grateful for "DAY" that comes every day, that is always different, that comes no matter what happens in the world or in my life, that "God has made". It all soothes me. And although yesterday's thoughts of tea were good, a new "DAY" is even better.
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