To awaken is to open our eyes. And we open them, as St Benedict said, to the divinising light. In the prologue to the rule of St Benedict he says this, that the call of God to us comes to us through the crowd, through the crowd of our thoughts, through the crowd of our activities, through the crowd of our memories, our unconscious, our ambitions. The Word of God or the call of God comes to us through all of this, it penetrates through all of this noise and distraction, and it is calling us. And he says, ‘What is sweeter to us than to hear this call and to feel that there is an opening in the wall.’ That there is a window, that there is a path, through the wall and that this is leading us into life into a bigger, broader panorama of life than we had imagined possible. And this is a continuous process, day by day..
( Breakthrough by Laurence Freeman OSB )
