Thomas Merton once said that being a priest means being caught between the goodness of God and the evil of man... with no chance for escape.

All the more dramatic when the “evil of man” includes oneself.

The uneasy predicament is no doubt shared to a degree by all Christians.

A curious place to be trapped.

Though...

If one can resist the urge to escape...

a peculiarly fertile place

for producing poets

and saints.