READING
CHRIST

Topics: Jesus Christ; Study; Truth; Understanding

References: Proverbs 2:1–11; 23:12; John 1:1

Reading ought to be an act of homage to the God of all truth. We open our hearts to words that reflect the reality he has created or the greater reality which he is. Christ, the incarnate Word, is the Book of Life in whom we read God.

—Thomas Merton, Thoughts in Solitude (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1958)