Active Passivity: Responding to God
“Active Passivity… is a spirituality of attentiveness, of watching and waiting, of noticing the ebb and flow of our feelings and inner dispositions.”
David L Fleming, SJ
I lift my eyes, look inside
yearning churning for something more
new version of my old vocation?
new ally? new association?
new shoes? new recreation?
Ask and I will answer,
“I am happy… with a twist of wist and blue.”
Taste the motley pastiche of my passage
gulping sundry grains of goulash stew.
Today I watch and wait and notice.
Today I lift my eyes, look outside
yearning churning for something more
icicles dripping from cotton-ball snow
cerulean ceiling reaching below
my wee kitchen window bares immortal tableau
Signs of late life sing a virgin song
urging me to say
the world is new another day
battered, brewed
softened, stewed
streaming the splendor of God
Poetry by Debra Asis
David L. Fleming, SJ quote above is found in An Ignatian Book of Days by Jim Manney, 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 will 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.
INVITATION
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All words are generated by grace and the grit of a real human being,
Debra Asis
