I’ve had a blog for about six months now. ^^

Actually, with the exception of a few posts here and there, all of these posts were written within the space of one month. (As I write this, it is 24 March.) In about one month, I wrote the equivalent of (nearly) daily posts for six months. And I don’t think it took a lot of my “spare time”… I certainly have still been busy – possibly too busy at times (it’s a real temptation for me).

This isn’t because I’m especially good at writing. It’s nothing, nothing, about me. I wouldn’t believe it if you told me.

But I mention this for a reason. There’s a point here.

I really think that it illustrates one of the fundamental theses of Father Lallemant’s spiritual doctrine:

… with contemplation we will do more in a month, for ourselves and for others, than we would have been able to do without it in ten years.

I don’t know about ten years, and I don’t know that I am nearly that beneficial and that productive, but I do know that Father Lallemant’s thesis is true. Contemplation, though it delves in eternity, means time as it is meant to be lived. The two tensions slowly disappear, and they both live together.

It just simply is true. Nothing more, nothing less. It’s true. Every human experience of God shows that it’s true. Somehow, we have all the time in the world when we have all the time in the world for God.