Merton part 3

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When I consent to the will and the mercy of God as it 'comes' to me in the events of life, appealing to my inner self and awakening my faith, I break through the superficial exterior appearances that form my routine vision of the world and of my own self, and I find myself in the presence of hidden majesty. It may appear to me that this majesty and presence is something objective, 'outside myself'. Indeed, the primitive saints and prophets saw this divine presence invision as a light or an angel or a man or a burning fire, or a blazing glory upheld by cherubim. only thus could their minds do justice to the supreme reality of what they experienced. Yet this is a majesty we do not see with our eyes, and it is all within ourselves. It is the mission of the Word and the