Dancing in the Water of Life by Thomas Merton

Author:Thomas Merton [Merton, Thomas]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
ISBN: 9780061741104
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

December 11, 1964

Sister Luke said that Archbishop Roberts was not allowed to give his intervention in the Council on conscientious objection! Can this be true? Perhaps only that he was one of several whose interventions on nuclear war had to be submitted in writing! But I hate that Bishop Hannan’s intervention (the NATO line!) was not only permitted but received much publicity. His speech, and the similar one of Liverpool,7 was one of the few reported in full by the NCWC.8

Heavy rain all night. Now the rain on the roof accentuates the silence, and surrounds the dryness and light of the hermitage as though with love and peace. The liberty and tranquillity of this place is indescribable–more than any merely bodily peace, this is a gift of God, marked with His simplicity and His purity. How one’s heart opens, and what hope arises in the core of my being! It is as if I had not really hoped in God for years, as if I had been living all this time in despair. Now all things seem reasonable and possible. A greater self-denial seems obvious and easy. (Though perhaps it may not be!) A whole new discussion of life is no longer a desperate dream, but completely and simply credible.

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