Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future.
Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless
you look for it in the present you will never find it.
Thomas Merton
overlapping unmet lives with this in
common: a love for high places and
solitude and living within the
tension of unresolved mystery
in the silence of heart where God is
met beyond gray words or hollow
actions. I must seek communion on
the plains where there is neither height nor
trees only sky and the memory
of the Blackfoot slicing through the pines
rippling water trout-cold and pure and
here is God in the silence that is
not really silence but the sound of
nature breathing in perfect rhythm
and this is my Gethsemani that
I run to in the quiet spaces
happy birthday Father Louis
2020
Divine Overtones 