Be A Seeker Of God’s Desire : longing for something sibylline

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Lord, I ask for what I want — to be a seeker of your desire for this day.
James Martin, SJ

hidden inside everything
hollow hint of
something sibylline
dances
the shade of prophets and pundits
fleet feet sweetly slip
electrify my longing for
something sibylline
ah … but
food
fame
fortune
fail
to satisfy this skiff
castaway I sink settle
sandy sea bottom cradles
my wanton bits
quickly decay
vacate their charge
consecrate my hull
ah …
God’s longing for me
perfects
my longing for
something sibylline

Poem through Debra Asis, by the grace of Infinite Generosity

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James Martin SJ’s question is found in today’s selection 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 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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