Reality of God this Day (Merton)

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Wednesday Dawn, from Thomas Merton's Book of Hours:

Our souls rise up from our earth like Jacob waking from his dream and exclaiming: "Truly God is in this place and I knew it not"! God becomes the only reality, in Whom all other reality takes its proper place--and falls into insignificance.

May our Loving God be our only reality this day....

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