The Emptying That Overflows
In the monastery at Gethsemani, Thomas Merton once described how the monks would rise at 3:15 a.m. for Vigils, shuffling through cold corridors in darkness,...
This is tradition perspectives on generosity, drawing on 2 Corinthians 9:7.
In the monastery at Gethsemani, Thomas Merton once described how the monks would rise at 3:15 a. m. for Vigils, shuffling through cold corridors in darkness, offering the first hours of consciousness to God before the world had any claim on them. This was not duty. It was desire — the soul's quiet insistence on giving itself away before it could be hoarded.…
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