Learning to live in the unforced rhythms of grace
Do not walk away from darkness,
Therein lies a greater light;
Deeper beauty, yet unseen
my heart seeks out
thy mystery.
.
Seek not out the road well-trodden,
paths of knowing,
truth revealed.
Embrace, instead, the clouds of silence
Lose thyself in depths
unknown.
Inspired by Richard Rohr, Eager to Love, Chapter 12: Bonaventure
(though I’m not quite sure where this is leading!)
In his book, Eager to Love (I am only part way through, but this is fast becoming my number one book of the year), Richard Rohr explores what he refers to as ‘beautiful morality’ in the lives of St Francis and St Clare. In contrast to much of the religiosity of their day (and ours) he sees in Francis and Clare a new self and a new way of living:
The self they became was humanly believable and beautiful, and that also made their moral choices trustworthy and true.
(p63)
Rohr goes on to describe what this beautiful morality looks like:
