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Fidelity to grace in my life is fidelity to simplicity, rejecting ambitionand analysis and elaborate thought, or even elaborate concern.
A breath of Zen blows all these cobwebs out the window.
It is certainly true that what is needed is to get back to the"original face" and drop off all the piled-up garments of thoughtthat do not fit me and are not "mine" -- but to take only what isnameless.
I have been absurdly burdened since the beginning of the yearwith the illusions of "great responsibility" and of a task to be done.Actually whatever work is to be done is God's work and notmine, and I will not help matters, only hinder them, by too muchcare.
Sunrise -- an event that calls forth solemn music in the verydepths of one's being, as if one's whole being had to attune itselfto the cosmos and praise God for a new day, praise Him in thename of all the beings that ever were or ever will be -- as thoughnow upon me falls the responsibility of seeing what all my ancestorshave seen, and acknowledging it, and praising God, so that,whether or not they praised God back then, themselves, they cando so now in me.
Sunrise demands this rightness, this order, this true dispositionof one's whole being.
January 20–21, 1963, IV. 291–92
Excerpted from A Year with Thomas Merton: Daily Meditations from His Journals by Thomas Merton All rights reserved by the original copyright owners. Excerpts are provided for display purposes only and may not be reproduced, reprinted or distributed without the written permission of the publisher.
