Once we have heard the voice of the Almighty fulfilling His own command by speaking it in our hearts, we realize that our contemplation can never again be a mere looking or a mere seeking: it must also be a doing and a fulfillment. We hunger for the transforming words of God, words spoken to our spirit in secret and containing our whole destiny in themselves. We come to live by nothing but this voice. Our contemplation is rooted in the mystery of Divine Providence, and in its actuality. Providence can no longer be for us a philosophical abstraction. It is no longer a supernatural agency to
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