Compelled To Serve The Truth : the tastes of martyrs
They sought countless ways to unmask the lies that justified the pervasive injustice and the continuing violence, and they made constructive proposals for a just peace and a more humane social order… This is what got them killed… six Jesuits, their housekeeper, and her daughter were murdered on this day in 1989 in El Salvadore. Dean Brackley, SJ
will you put your life on the line?
lay it down for Me?
what is mine to lay down?
does anything belong to me?
yes
sweet taste of yes
salty metal of yes
sour smack of yes
bitter zing of yes
savory zest of yes
belong to you
say yes
put your life in My hands
I shall do the rest
Debra Asis
All words are generated by grace and the grit of this real human being.
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Dean Brackley, 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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