Be The Person You Actually Are: Free from loving who you are not
It is not humility to insist on being someone that you are not. It is as much as saying that you know better than God who you are… how do you expect to arrive at the end of your own journey if you take the road to another (hu)man’s city? Thomas Merton
Freedom unbinds my toes from walking
who I am not
Freedom unties my mind from minding
who I am not
Freedom unhooks my heart from loving
who I am not
Inside the tap and stumble
of my jitterbugging toes
Beneath the rap and rumble
of my somersaulting mind
Rapt in the gap and humble
of my hoodwinked heart
The bird in my chest settles
on the cloudy dream of who
I am free to be
Freedom unbinds my toes from walking
who I am not
Freedom unties my mind from minding
who I am not
Freedom unhooks my heart from loving
who I am not
Poem by Debra Asis
Thomas Merton’s quote above is found in to today’s selection in An Ignatian Book of Days by James Martin, 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.
INVITATION
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All words are generated by grace and the grit of a real human being,
Debra Asis
