Years ago I read Monica Furlong’s biography of Thomas Merton, the Benedictine monk/writer/mystic who died in 1967. With rather courageous insight, she wrote: …those who believed themselves to have a vocation, a call, needed to reach a stage in their development when they knew that the constraint had not been quite of the kind they originally thought, but rather an inevitable outcome of their temperament, upbringing, and the particular problems they had. I’ve thought long and hard over that one,... Read more