I always love when I open a book to a random passage and it turns out to be exactly what I needed to read, when I needed to read it. This happened yesterday, when I opened Thomas Merton's No Man Is An Island to this passage on page 53:
"God's will is not an abstraction, not a machine, not an esoteric system. It is a living concrete reality in the lives of men, and our souls are created to burn as flames within His flame. The will of the Lord is not a static center drawing our souls blindly toward itself. It is a creative power, working everywhere, giving life and being and direction to all things, and above all forming and creating, in the midst of an old creation, a whole new world which is called the Kingdom of God. What we call 'the will of God' is the movement of His love and wisdom, ordering and governing all free and necessary agents, moving movers and causing causes, driving drivers and ruling those who rule, so that even those who resist Him carry out his will without realizing that they are doing so..."
Part of me is tempted to argue semantics, but another part of me --perhaps that flame burning within the flame-- is just tempted to shout AMEN!
So AMEN!
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