This, from Rowan Williams’ *Way of St Benedict*, has me thinking:

“it is bad to deny and repress emotion [and] poisonous for us to be passive under injustice.” But we must educate our emotions, not indulge them, b/c that only “locks us far more firmly in our mutual isolation.”

So, if our spiritual/theological training lacks depth and rigor, as is so often the case in my circles, then when we finally come aware of the injustices around us and sense something of the pain in wh/ others live, we’re likely to react indulgently, rather than wisely.

And that is one of the ways that evil works along the grain of our transformation to deceive us. If we can’t be kept from feeling the pain of injustice, we can be made to indulge in that feeling as if it were sufficient in itself to bring about the good others need and deserve.