At Play in the Fields of the Lord

I ran across this great passage in the summer newsletter from St. Andrews Abbey. The essay was written by Brother Ben Harrison of the Missionaries of Charity.

Though I agree whole-heartedly that we must do our part, there is much more at (in?) play than we humans can understand or control. An unlimited number of variables seems to be in operation. God is working flamboyantly and with gusto, as he always has, building, demolishing, planting, and uprooting. Often we prefer not to blame God for the violent and cataclysmic shifts and shudders of geologic or human history, but both Old and New Testaments show him working both his wonders and his judgments on all levels. As He Who Is, he is the ultimate source of all that comes to be.