Good Prayer Means Good Listening : until no one is listening
The good pray-er is above all a good listener. Prayer is dialogue, it is a personal encounter in love. When we communicate with someone we care about, we speak and we listen. But even our speaking is responsive. Thomas Green, SJ
listening
’til my head ceases spinning
webs of want and wandering
be still
listening
’til shuttered eyes and ears
clear life’s
treadmill
listening
’til encyclopedic silence
my brittle bones and raspy breath
fulfill
listening
’til no one is listening
and no thing distinguishes
being and will
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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