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Prayer of Solitude
From A Search for Solitude
The Journals of Thomas Merton
Volume Three 1952-1960
The prayer for solitude is answered when
my will is moved by Your Spirit
to reach out and find You in solitude.
I receive what I want as soon as I want it,
when it is You who moves me to want it.
The lack of interior solitude is simply
the inability to desire solitude
with an efficacious desire.
That desire cannot be perfectly acquired
without a certain degree of
exterior solitude. You know how much is necessary
for each one who is called to union with You.
You have called me into this silence
to be grateful for what silence
I have, and to use it by desiring more.
Heaven and earth are full of Thy glory.
Full of Thy mercy.
And I who am nothing
have been placed here in silence
to behold it and to praise Thee!
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