Wednesday, October 8, 2014

Chapter 7: The value of humility (paragraph 17)


The tenth step of humility teaches that we should not be given to empty laughter on every least occasion because: a fool's voice is for ever raised in laughter. (Para. 17 of Saint Benedict's Rule, trans. by Patrick Barry, OSB, 1997.)

I've known a laughter of joy that isn't empty, but is full of awe and delight, and sometimes its expression is as small as a glance or a smile. This kind of laughter alights gently, even in a flickering moment of relationship.

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