A Cure For Dryness Of Soul : remember your first cry
As to that blindness or dryness of soul which you think you find in yourself, it may easily come from a lack of confidence, or faintheartedness and, consequently, can be cured by the contrary … act as if you had confidence. St. Ignatius Loyola
shy eyes grope in deadly darkness
lay bare my misgiving
hide my brave and brassy part
when faint soul stops singing
every thing revolves around
flesh and blood and dust
clinging to impermanence
perish i must
but
never mind the end
this is only the beginning
monotonous labor
wounding my brawn
as if virgin child
resists being born
til certain surgeon
cuts earth’s headstrong tomb
wrestling unspoiled spark
from my fainthearted womb
tell me, please tell me
must life always start
with a bold vagitus cry
broadcasting my part?
Debra Asis
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William Barry, 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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