From today’s Dynamis reading, a quotation from Dag Hammarskjold:

Dag Hammarskjold teaches us how to move from the broken heart of repentance to gratitude:

Weep if you must weep, but do not complain. The Way has chosen you, and you shall say ‘Thank you.’

Dag Hammerskjold was Secretary-General of the United Nations and Nobel Laureate for the Peace Prize in 1961. He died in a plane crash that same year on the way to the Congo to broker a ceasefire. After his death, a journal of meditations and spiritual quotes entitled Markings, was published and created quite a sensation. Here was a quintessentially public man, world renowned for his diplomacy and accomplishments in international affairs, who nevertheless was a contemplative at heart. After reading his biography from the Nobel Prize web site, check out some of these quotes, drawn largely from his spiritual journal:

God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.

I am the vessel. The draft is God’s. And God is the thirsty one.

Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.

What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear.

Godspeed, Mr. Hammarskjold.