Paxvobis

Vor über 57 Jahren schrieb der Trappistenmönch brother Louis, was ich zurzeit auch schreiben würde, könnte ich so treffend formulieren wie er:

All day I have been waiting for You with my faculties bleeding the poison of unsuppressed activity....I have waited for Your silence and Your peace to stanch and cleanse them, O my Lord. You will heal my soul when it pleases You, because I have trusted in You. I will no longer wound myself with the thoughts and questions that have surrounded me like thorns: that is peanance You do not ask of me. You have made my soul for Your peace and Your silence, but it is lacerated by the noise of my activity and my desires. My mind is crucified all day by its own hunger for experience, for ideas, for satisfaction. And I do not posess my house in silence. But I was created for Your peace and You will not despise my longing for the holiness of Your deep silence. O my Lord, You will not leave me forever in this sorrow, because I have trusted in You and I will wait upon Your good pleasure in peace without complaining any more. This is for Your glory. (brother Louis-Thomas Merton ocso "The sign of Jonas", beatissimae virgini mariae dolorosae)