...on reaching the world.

"it is never someone who wants to save the world. They always become discouraged. But send me a contemplative; send me someone who has a deep heart for God, and one day at a time, they serve."
Teresa of Avila.

"When only our minds and our hands work together we quickly become dependent on the results of our actions and tend to give up on when they do not materialize. In the solitude of the heart we can truly listen to the pains of the world because there we can recognizr them not as stange and unfamiliar pains, but as pains that are indeed out own. There w can see that what is most universal os most personal and that indeed nothing human is strange to us. There we can feel that the cruel reality of history is indeed the reality of the human heart, our own included, and that to protest asks, first of all, for confession of our own participation in the human condition. There we can indeed respond."
Henri Nouwen