Words of Wisdom, from a Monk

Carl

Thank you for your email and for showing me something of the pain and suffering which you are mixed up with in Zimbabwe. Love and suffering so often go together; I know how lovable African kids are and it must be awful seeing them suffer and not being able to do anything about it.

I am glad you did succeed in getting that project off the ground. But even if you hadn’t it would have been well worth trying. I reckon that I have had my share of failures during my life. Nicolas thinks that I admit defeat too easily; perhaps he is right. But I do believe that there is something more important than success or failure; it is just the desire to love God and to do his will, and to leave the results to him.