Finding Joy In Hardship : sit in the mud til bitter makes sweet
Amid the hardship and trial itself, I stimulate my heart with this exercise. I encourage myself to endure for love of the Lord who is before me, until I make what is bitter sweet. St. Alphonsus Rodriguez, SJ
how how how do i plough
through muddled murk
and messiness?
my income withers
my loved one dies
the world is deaf to me
how how how do i plough
through muddled murk
and messiness?
i succeed and outstep others
i fail and fall in shame
caught in contradiction
how how how do i plough
through muddled murk
and messiness?
my mind is mired in mad remarks
my gut groans with foreboding
how …
stop stop stop
striving to exhume
immaculate treasure
from your muddy room
stop stop stop
scheming to unearth
acclaimed admittance
to the farthest berth
stop stop stop
sit in stale mud
mind your own business
until bitter
makes you sweet
Debra Asis
All words are generated by grace and the grit of this real human being.
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William Barry, 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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