SILENCE by Richard Rohr

"This is one good thing the silence has taught me: our lives are useable by God. We need not always be effective, but only transparent and vulnerable. Then we are instruments, no matter what we do.

"God takes it from there, and there is not much point in comparing who is better, right, higher or lower, or supposedly saved. We are all partial images slowly coming into focus, as long as we allow and filter the Light and Love of God, which longs to shine through us—as us!"

Adapted from Contemplation in Action, p. 134