December 6 - This monk looks at our world and posts an insightful reflection:

We are always in crisis, we know no peace. That’s a characteristic of our time. Crisis is the new normal. It’s almost becoming boring – what’s the latest crisis? The media of course works it up, but it’s the mentality of our time. It’s partly caused by the fact that the rate of change is accelerating and we don’t know how to keep up with it, and we can’t control it. So, there is a real crisis. But there is no human generated crisis that we cannot solve. It’s a human problem; human beings can solve it. But if we get caught up in this crisis mentality, then we end up losing our peace, losing our clarity, losing our ability to deal with real situations that demand our attention.

      (Finding Oneself 1 by Laurence Freeman OSB)