“And now in the woods, I once again revisit the idea of simply staying here, in the woods-with great interior freedom, and applying myself to the main business, which has nothing to do with places, and does not require a beach of pure white Caribbean sand. Only silence and a curtain of trees.”
Thomas Merton, “When The Trees Say Nothing”
Jon has been talking about and quoting Thomas Merton since I met him. I often find Merton’s writing difficult to make sense of. It is too much like being in church for me. He writes in a language that I don’t understand.
Until Jon bought me Merton’s book “When The Trees Say Nothing”. It is a book of Journal entries about nature. It is in these writings by Thomas Merton that his God makes sense to me.
