“Ask me not where I live or what I like to
eat…ask me what I think I am living for, in detail, and ask me what I think is
keeping me from living fully for the thing I want to live for.”
-Thomas Merton as quoted by Ruth Haley
Barton in Life
Together in Christ
This 50 year old line from Merton gives us a much needed
corrective on our current glut of social media posts and photos of where I’ve
been, what I’ve eaten, and who I’ve seen.
I’ve been accused of being too quiet, too standoffish. However, it’s not that I don’t want to talk
to you. It’s that I want to talk about
things that matter. What is the state of
your soul? Tell me about your soul
adventures!
“I disapprove of the usual practice of
talking ‘small talk’…I hunger for others to tell me their soul adventures.”
-Frank Laubach in Letters
by a Modern Mystic
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