Humility seeks silence not in inactivity but in ordered activity, in the activity that is proper to our poverty and helplessness before God. Humility goes to pray and finds silence through words. But because it is natural for us to pass from words to silence, and from silence to words, humility is in all things silent. Even when it speaks, humility listens. The words of humility are so simple, so gentle and so poor that they find their way without effort to the silence of God.
Thomas Merton. Thoughts in Solitude. (New York: Farrar, Strauss, Giroux). p. 88-89
Indeed, they [the words of humility] are the echo of His silence, and as soon as they are spoken His silence is already present in them.
Thoughts in Solitude. (New York: Farrar, Strauss, Giroux). p. 89
Contemplative Pause Contemplative Pause:Throughout this week, pause, take a breath, and listen with your heart. How does your humility echo your relationship with God?
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