Normal day! I think I am really going to struggle next week when it is back to the “world”.

I have been moved by two Thomas Merton quotes:

À contemplative is not one who takes his prayer seriously, but one who takes God seriously, who is famished for truth, who seeks to live in generous simplicity, in the spirit.

Yes! It is not about solitude, silence, prayer, or meditation. It is about Jesus! Taking him seriously is the point. And all is gift!

I should add, not only for those who live a monastic/religious/vowed life – for all!

Hence monastic prayer, especially meditation and contemplative prayer, is not so much a way to find God as a way of resting in him whom we have found, who loves us, who is near to us, who comes to us to draw us to himself.

Rest versus action – that is the tension of the anchorite life. Simply resting in God, being present for him, and riding the wave.