Witnessing to the Personal
A day of spiritual fires, quiet fires, warm skies. Pink beasts in the field (pigs).
Angry kingfisher rattles over the foul creek and swings upward, to head for the clear lake.
Everything adds up to these two points:
A. My instinct to regard as an evil and as an oversimplification the thought of "losing oneself" in total identification with (submersion in) any group as such--this instinct against such is correct, it is good. To be a man of the church I have to be fully myself--and fully responsible and free before God--not a "unit" or a mere "number."
B. My vocation and task in this world is to keep alive all that is usefully individual and personal in me, to be a "contemplative" in the full sense--and to share it with others--to remain as a witness of the nobility of the private person and his primacy over the group.
October 2 and 7, 1958, III.221-22
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