Be still and empty
God shall fill you
with far greater fullness
than you could ever
wish or will.
~ Angelus Sileshis, with thanks to Ruth Shrader
When silence, wonder, adoration are diminished, so are human beings. We imagine we can get by on love and indeed we can. But love shrivels up and dies in the absence of contemplation and adoration. Love, human love, needs to be transfigured, transcended, if it is to be true to its deepest self.