Celebrating Thomas Merton, contemplative and writer (1915-1968) and the day on which Jack Whitehouse's was born

                                                                      Psalm 37:15

     in you, O Lord, have I fixed my hope

The beginning of love 

 is to let those we love 

be perfectly them-

selves, and not to 

twist them to fit 

our own image. 

Otherwise we love 

only the reflection 

of ourselves we find in them.               

                                 - Thomas Merton