"His smile, like lightning"

Grateful for our wonderful friend, Dale Brooks, who sent us this gem from Thomas Merton:
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"Make ready for the Christ whose smile, like lightning, sets free the song
of everlasting glory that now sleeps, in your paper flesh, like dynamite."

​Brothers and sisters, "the everlasting song of glory" is within us, "like dynamite," and it's our daily experience of the face - of the smile! - of Jesus that lights off this powder keg!

​Closer, Jesus, draw us ever closer!