Concentrated Attention: Turn around
Something in our soul has a far more violent repugnance for the attention that the flesh has for bodily fatigue. That something is much more closely connected with evil than is the flesh. Simone Weil
Turn around, look inside
refuse to let my demon hide
the slippery chic that would construe
to project my fiend on you
Rather than in the mirror notice
malfaction that skews my focus
I crucify your dignity
with my misled malignity
Help me revise my misplaced blame
amend this cold blooded game
Free me to see you as you are
unblemished by my bitter scar
Turn around, look inside
refuse to let my demon hide
the slippery chic that would construe
to project my fiend on you
The Simone Weil quote 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.
INVITATION
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