It brings to mind words of Father James Krueger from an On Being Blog of some three years ago called This Restless Sea . Krueger writes about our often anxious activism when maybe something quite different is called for. “Faith makes no show, nor does faith act anxiously and restlessly. Faith needn’t make work for itself, for it knows to its marrow that “all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well.” This was the great proclamation of faith from the pen of Julian of Norwich in the midst of the Great Plague. Who would have believed her? Who believes her now?
Contemplative action must be a spontaneous surge rolling from out of this restful sea of faith. Only then will such action provide true Christian witness to the world. Only then shall we proclaim to the world that it is God’s and that God can be trusted. Only then might we inspire the world to put down the gun, to cast aside the blade, to strip off the armor and dive into the great sea of forgetting that is forgiveness. And if the world smites us with bitter jibes, taking us into its sights and taking us down, then we, too, shall forget and sink into the blessed verve of God, and it shall be little different than sitting still.”