A Quick Thought Before I Sleep

Reading Thomas Merton again.  If you haven't read him, you seriously should. I haven't read him since I first seriously began wanting to convert. Here is something I found today that rings so true with me:

"The desert is the home of despair. And, now, despair is everywhere...This, then, is our desert: to live facing despair, but not to consent [to it]. To trample it down under hope in the Cross. To wage war against despair unceasingly. That war is our wilderness. If we wage it courageously, we will find Christ at our side. If we cannot face it, we will never find Him."

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