His Mercy

“...The light of truth burns without a flicker in the depths of a house that is shaken with storms of passion and of fear. ‘You will not fear the terror of the night.’ And so I go on trying to walk on the waters of the breakdown. Worse than ever before and better than ever before. It is always painful and reassuring when he who I am not is visibly destroyed by the hand of God in order that the simplicity in the depths of me, which is His image, may be set free to serve Him in peace. Sometimes in the midst of all this I am tremendously happy, and I have never in my life begun to be so grateful for His mercy. ...”
~Thomas Merton (Journals, October 22, 1952, III.22)