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Dancing With God

We have but to live, take each day as it comes, see the Lord in all that happens and have a kind of response to the will of God that is much like dancing. You must work with it. It is not a matter of passive submission. This is no way to dance; it is too heavy, too leaden, too dragging and uninspired. No, you must dance with your partner, you must cooperate, you must work with the will of God. This is the sort of dancing that leads to the kingdom and makes one free.

—  Brother Paul Quenon, OCSO, in his book “In Praise of the Useless Life: A Monk’s Memoir” (2018 by The Ave Maria Press, Notre Dame, Indiana)

~ S.K. Orr