wisdom for wednesday (X)
Ahhh - Stability. The virtue of persevering - in this instance persevering in relation to place. This is a much needed piece of wisdom that I need to hear and one for our overly mobile culture. Lord, help me, as Benedict admonishes, to listen (and there is that metaphor of trees - I am seeing a theme in my life!).
“An elder said: Just as a tree cannot bear fruit if it is often transplanted, so neither can a monk bear fruit if he frequently changes his abode.”
(quoted from Thomas Merton’s, The Wisdom of the Desert p. 34)
i didn’t need to hear that one!!!
or maybe i did…..