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“My first duty is to … live as a member of the human race which is no more (and no less) ridiculous than I am myself. And my first human act is the recognition of how much I owe everybody else.
But the world was made by God and is good, and, unless the world is our mother, we cannot be saints, because we cannot be saints unless we are first of all human.“
Thomas Merton. Entering the Silence, Journals Volume 2. Jonathan Montaldo, editor (San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1997): 451.
What are we going to do when we get home? When the two sons of the parable of the prodigal son both have returned to their father, what then? The answer is simple: they have to become fathers themselves. Sons have to become fathers; daughters have to become mothers. Being children of God involves growing up and becoming like God. Jesus doesn’t hesitate to say this: “Be perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect, be compassionate as your heavenly Father is compassionate.” (See Matthew 5:48 and Luke 6:36). How? By welcoming home our lost brothers and sisters in the way our Father welcomed us home.
emphasis mine
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