Certainly our life is full of real problems, some of them perhaps without solution. It would be an impertinence to suggest that all of our problems are fabricated. And yet we are so obsessed with the idea that we are supposed to possess "answers" and "solutions" for everything that we evade the difficult problems, which are all too real, by raising other less real problems to which we think we have the answer.
Merton, Thomas. Contemplation in a World of Action. (Notre Dame, Indiana: Notre Dame Press, 1998) 48
Thought for the Day
There are some problems in life which are not to be solved except by being lived with all the honesty, humility and courage that grace and nature can provide for us.
Contemplation in a World of Action: 56
Contemplative Pause: Throughout this week, pause, take a breath, and listen with your heart. How might you reframe a problem as an opportunity for growth and a strengthening of the connection to the Divine?
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