{"id":141811,"date":"2025-12-11T07:29:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T12:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=141811"},"modified":"2025-12-11T04:14:39","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T09:14:39","slug":"thomas-merton-on-trusting-in-god-on-his-feast-day-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=141811","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Merton on Trusting in God on his Feast Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cBut the man who is not afraid to admit everything that he sees to be wrong with himself, and yet recognizes that he may be the object of God\u2019s love precisely because of his shortcomings, can begin to be sincere. His sincerity is based on confidence, not in his own illusions about himself, but in the endless, unfailing mercy of God.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2014<strong>No Man Is an Island<\/strong>&nbsp;(New York: Houghton Mifflin 2002 paper ed. of 1953 original), p.202<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Dec 10 &#8211; \u201cThomas Merton\u201d \u00a9 icon by Br. Robert Lentz, OFM. Happy Memorial Day Thomas!<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/thomasmerton?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#thomasmerton<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/trinitystores?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#trinitystores<\/a><br><br>Get your Saint of the Day &#8211; LIKE our FB Page &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/E6Hk8Ph3AC\">https:\/\/t.co\/E6Hk8Ph3AC<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/I1znabZE0v\">https:\/\/t.co\/I1znabZE0v<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FkjcPqWcYP\">pic.twitter.com\/FkjcPqWcYP<\/a><\/p>&mdash; The Trinity Crew (@trinityiconsguy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/trinityiconsguy\/status\/1998923455572619492?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 11, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cBut the man who is not afraid to admit everything that he sees to be wrong with himself, and yet recognizes that he may be the object of God\u2019s love precisely because of his shortcomings, can begin to be sincere.<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=141811\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175,186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-church-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=141811"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":141814,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141811\/revisions\/141814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=141811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=141811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=141811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}