Contemplation In Action: noticing God’s jeweled bread crumbs
Contemplation in action is a paradoxical idea — detached and engaged, reflective and active. Jesus is a model. Jim Manney
Oh, to live from the deep down place
listening praying
listening walking
listening seeing
listening touching
glowing opals rubies selenite
bared by ultraviolet light
baptizing impenetrable night
God’s jeweled bread crumbs spark
meaning memories desire insight
console cajole compel me to action
Oh, to let listening
gladden prayer
stomp sandals
tantalize eyes
galvanize fingers
inform depths with dancing
finding God in all things
Poem by Debra Asis
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Jim Manney, SJ s quote is found in Sunday’s selection in An Ignatian Book of Days by James Martin, SJ, 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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