God As Schoolmaster: Listen
Lord, teach me what I need to know. Give me wisdom. Let me know your mind. Jim Manney
Who is God?
Who am I?
What am I to do?
Meeting God as schoolmaster
I am student
listening
for voiceless voice
dispensing delight
rousing imagination
allowing sorrow
mining memories
provoking peace
disturbing comfort
spelling insight
Meeting God as schoolmaster
concealed in every sense and cell
I AM endows this thirsty beginner
with wisdom of the well
Poem by Debra Asis
Jim Manney,SJ ‘s prayer above is found in to 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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All words are generated by grace and the grit of a real human being,
Debra Asis
