Jennifer Fulwiler over at the National Catholic Register wrote a good article... oh, about two months ago... in regards to comments made by Thomas Merton, a Catholic monk and a popular author. He has some interesting things to say that apply to this age of the Digital Diva; which is especially interesting because he died in 1968, almost forty years too late for anyone to Tweet about it. He is quoted as saying, "It was as if I could not quite be satisfied that I was real until I could... see myself externalized in a public and printed and official self which I could admire at my ease. This was what I really believed in: reputation, success. I wanted to live in the eyes and the mouths and the minds of men. But when my mind was absorbed in all that, how could I lead a supernatural life, the life to which I was called. How could I love God, when everything I did was done not for Him but for myself, and not trusting in His aid, but relying on my own wisdom and talents?"
Humbling thoughts for all of us, especially for me as I am rebooting my blog (and I know all too well how self-centered and self-absorbed I can be). Be sure to check out Jennifer's full article as she has some very good thoughts on this.
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