The first chirps of the waking day birds mark the "point vierge" (virgin point) of dawn under a sky as yet without true light, a moment of awe and inexpressible innocence, when the Father, in perfect silence open their eyes. They begin to speak to Him, not with fluent song, but with an awakening question that is their dawn state, their state at the "point vierge." Their condition asks if it is time for them to be. He answers "yes." Then, they one by one wake up and become birds. They manifest themselves as birds, beginning to sing. Presently they will be fully themselves, and will even fly.
Here is an unspeakable secret: paradise is all around us and we do not understand. It is wide open. The sword is taken away, but we do not know it: we are off "one to his farm and another to his merchandise."Lights on, clock ticking, thermostats working, stoves cooking, electric shavers filling radios with static. "Wisdom" cries the dawn deacon, but we do not attend. The most wonderful moment of the day is when creation in its innocence asks permission "to be" once again, as it did on the first morning that ever was.
T. Merton
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