I subscribe to a weekly e-mail post from the Merton Institute and this week’s post spoke personally to me as I continue to workout God’s direction for me at this stage and season of life.
Our vocation is not simply to be, but to work together with God in the creation of our own life, our own identity, our own destiny…To work out our own identity in God, which the Bible calls “working out our salvation,” is a labor that requires sacrifice and anguish, risk and many tears. It demands close attention to reality at every moment, and great fidelity to God…
Thomas Merton
New Seeds of Contemplation (New York: New Directions Press, 1961): 32.
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