Growth in Monastic life, and other vocations
In the Christian Monastic way of life, we are not looking for enlightenment as such, but a slow often frustrating journey into the Heart of God. It is the growth of love that is sought, of service, and the patience to go for decades slowly arriving at that point in time when simplicity,love of others, and the letting go of the fear of pain grows. I have seen everything come for the monks here to a point only at the time of death, or just before d