Status Updates From Island of the World

Men speak of peace, but they do not know what they mean by it. Is it absence of conflict? Is it passivity and compromise? Is it the peace of the grave, or is it the peace of an active and wise love that doesn’t count the cost?

Supposedly, one must choose between war and world government. They do not understand that globalism will not change the fundamental human condition. Globalism is ultra-nationalism expanded to a planetary scale, without the safety measures of cultural and religious diversity.

Isn’t it a basic truth that we are brought to prayer only by passing through suffering? In this respect, the war was a blessing because it taught this generation how to pray, and it taught us the power of prayer. We learned that it was prayer that preserved us against impossible odds and only prayer that brought us independence. Dare I write these words—O God, how dare I write them?—yet I cannot be silent.

Slow so far. I am enjoying Josip’s interaction with his dad.

Language should be, he says, as fluid as love and as stable as marriage.

Have I ever been able to predict anything? No. The surprises of the Lord have not come to an end.

They now have a key to an entire world of resistance. Internal thought, a flow of human discourse among the dehumanized.