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 touched
glowing opals rubies selenite bared
by ultraviolet light
baptizing impenetrable night

God’s jeweled bread crumbs spark
meaning memories insights desires
console cajole compel me to action

Oh, to let listening
gladden my prayer
stomp my sandals
tantalize my eyes
galvanize my 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 Jim Manney, 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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