A Bit Of Spiritual Psychology : source of fire’s flame
When you come upon a strong disordered attachment — an excessive eagerness to be admired and famous, for example — it can be freeing to pray against that attachment by praying not to be admired and highly esteemed. This does not necessarily mean that you will never be admired again, but the nerve of the prideful sting is cut, and whatever fame and esteem come will be for God’s glory and not your own.
George Aschenbrenner, SJ
gather wood
set down tinder
add kindling
build log tent
strike match
marvel
spark crackles
pinecones krinkel
dry grasses tip
cottonwood sticks
impassion piñon
perfume
lingers
notice
tinder
kindling
log
scent
all return to one
fire fading
where goes the flame?
from where it came?
surely not
silent fire builder
Words through Debra Asis, by the grace of Infinite Generativity
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George Aschenbrenner, SJ’s quote is found in today’s selection in An Ignatian Book of Days by Jim Manney is a series of daily reflections from the Spiritual Wisdom of St. Ignatius of Loyola. Throughout the book we hear the voices of St. Ignatius as well as many great thinkers and writers, long gone and present day, each uniquely revealing the way of finding God in all things. And that is my intention; to find God/Divine Presence/Ultimate Reality in whatever presents itself to me each day in 2024.
Each day I read, reflect and write on the selection, hoping to articulate the ways in which I come to know God/Divine Presence/Ultimate Reality via personal experience, impelled by the leading of my inner life.
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