Great Reflection from Thomas Merton

 

It is God’s love that warms me in the sun and

God’s love

That sends the cold rain. It is God’s love that

feeds me in the bread I eat,

and God that feeds me also by hunger and

fasting.

It is the love of God that sends the winter days

when I am cold and sick

and the hot summer when I labor and my

clothes are full of sweat:

but it is God Who breathes on me with light

winds off the river

and in the breezes out of the wood.

His love spreads the shade of the sycamore

over my head . . .

It is God’s love that speaks to me in the birds

and streams;

But also behind the clamor of the city God

speaks to me in His judgments,

and all these things are seeds sent to me from His will.

If these seeds would take root in my liberty,

and His will would grow from my freedom,

I would become the love that He is, and my

Harvest would be

His glory and my own joy. ~ Thomas Merton, (New Seeds of Contemplation, pp. 16-17)