Wisdom from Dom Jean-Charles Nault, O.S.B.

[Tears] are like water that falls on a hard rock and, over time, manages to penetrate it. They are like water that flows over the shell of our stony heart, so that it might become a heart of flesh. Little by little they will transform our heart so as to make it docile to the Lord. They will make a notch so that mercy might pour into that gap, into that wound, just as the mercy of God was engulfed in Christ’s wound of love on the Cross.

—Dom Jean-Charles Nault, O.S.B. from The Noonday Devil: Acedia, the Unnamed Evil of Our Times