eschatology?

Father Merton said, "The time of the end is the time of no room."

On the popular level, Christians who are outspoken concerning the end-times are often times less inclined to consider that the apocalypse is most accurately the end of the human heart.

It's about an "inner-space war," not an outer-space drama. It isn't about Middle Eastern warfare or political prophecies. It isn't even about the atomic bomb, necessarily, although it certainly is a sign of things to come. That is, it is a sign of the folding of the human heart.

It is a sign that we might give up on each other.

The Life that abides in us is the love of Christ. It is the human heart on fire, alive, beaming with incredible light. It is also the reservoir of peace, it is satyagraha, it is the force that keeps the whole world together in its work of humble loving and adoration.

I write this brief note because just before falling asleep last night I read this in Merton's biography, part of a lesson he taught to his students:
"Biblical eschatology must not be confused with the vague and anxious eschatology of human foreboding."

Let us make room for our souls to be given life in Jesus. Let us be guided by the Truth, the mystical experience of love for our fellow woman and man.