We are very good at choosing and using words that divide.
Maybe we use them because we don’t really choose them – they are near at hand, floating in the air around us.
Like COVID.
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Choosing words
Tag: truth telling
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Love included
The “truth” that makes another man seem cheap hides another truth that we should never forget, and which would make him remain always worthy of honor in our sight. To destroy truth with truth under the pretext of being sincere is a very insincere way of telling a lie.
— Thomas Merton, No Man Is an Island, Sincerity
If love is not in the truth I tell, then I’m not telling the whole truth.
Not telling the whole truth reveals the truth that I am not whole.
That I am not whole means I am part of the problem.
When Jesus says Repent, he asks me to own up to that.
Then he says, Follow me and I will make you whole, part of the solution, able to tell the whole truth, love included.
dw
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Disorganized souls
…our need for truth is inescapable.
Instead of conforming ourselves to what is, we twist everything around, in our words and thoughts, to fit our own deformity.
The seat of this deformity is in the will. Although we still may speak the truth, we are more and more losing our desire to live according to the truth. Our wills are not true, because they refuse to accept the laws of our own being: they fail to work along the lines demanded by our own reality. Our wills are plunged in false values, and they have dragged our minds along with them, and our restless tongues bear constant witness to the disorganization inside our souls.
— Thomas Merton, No Man Is an Island, Sincerity
I’m not sure I can imagine a better description of where we are, as a culture, right now.
Lord, have mercy on me, a sinner.
May God help us. Amen.
dw
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