Be patient and follow the way of simplicity with which God has blessed you. But things cannot help sometimes being filled with anguish, for all of us who seek to love Christ. Life is never in any way as simple as it ought to be: there are so many conflicts, not between good people and bad only but between the good and the good. This is worse, and produces unending confusion. We must seek peace in the underlying simplicity which is beyond conflict: and here we seek the naked presence of God in apparent nothingness. If only we find Him, the emptiness becomes perfectly full, and the contradictions vanish.Thomas Merton  in Precious Thoughts, selected and edited by Fiona Gardner (Darton, Longman and Todd, 2011) No one can reach your Mystery without difficulty, Lord, unless you invite them