Thomas Merton

Thomas Merton (January 31, 1915 – December 10, 1968)

                    

True encounter with Christ   

liberates something in us,

a power

we did not know we had,

a hope,

a capacity for life,

a resilience,

an ability to bounce back

when we thought

we were completely defeated,

a capacity to grow

and change,

a power

of creative transformation.

 

                        --Thomas Merton, He is Risen