Thomas Merton prayed: Let me rest in Your will and be silent. This is often interpreted as a passive acceptance of circumstances or suffering. Others take such a prayer to mean that God’s will is predestined. But perhaps it is this moment, whatever it may contain, that is “God’s will”. Not yesterday or when we were ten, but this very moment. Not next week, or ten years from now; not when this is achieved or that much money is saved. Now. Consider this possibility: the only thing we have is this moment. Then it is gone and is memory. And the moment coming up that we aspire to is just fantasy. It’s the present moment in which we breathe.
Let me rest in Your [moment] and be silent. Then the light of Your joy will warm my life, Merton prayed. Because in the moment, there is no need for anything else. There is only You.
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