Strangely, all of life's problems, dilemmas, and difficulties are now resolved not by negativity, attack, criticism, force, or logical resolution, but always by falling into a larger “brightness.” Hopkins called it “the dearest freshness deep down things.” This is the falling upward that we have been waiting for! One of the guiding principles of our Center for Action and Contemplation puts it this way: “The best criticism of the bad is the practice of the better.” I learned this from my father St. Francis, who did not concentrate on attacking evil or others,
