Return of an Old Friend: Thomas Merton's Seeds of Contemplation
"Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul."
Last night, I had coffee with a dear friend of mine who brought me a book. She was returning my hardback copy of Merton's Seeds of Contemplation, a book which is one of the five I would take with me to that proverbial desert island. I thought I'd lost it for good, seeing that I've asked most of my friends if they were the ones I'd last loaned it to, each of them saying shaking their heads, saying no. Having given up, I bought a paperback edition of New Seeds of Contemplation, which is the same book, but expanded...but somehow, I still preferred my old copy, with my notes inside. So when I saw it sticking out of my friend's bag, I was thrilled. While she ordered her coffee, I sat with the book, leafing through, reading again about God's love coming in the rain and the sun, in the bread of the day as well as the hunger. The challenge to give up that which we think we desire in order to find that which is the real desire...the love of God.
We need old friends to remind us...
6:28:41 AM 
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