How Do You Know If You Have Found God? : setting aside the circus
It is the self-awareness of seeing what is truly important and needed in a situation rather than just what I want. It is the moment of gratitude for what is, and the release of the angst for what isn’t. And in those moments there is a sense of wholeness, of Oneness with Something greater than myself… Lisa Kelly
relinquishing
my ringmaster’s persuader
remembering
grand pageant’s not my show
mistress of ceremonies
bows her standard
willingly welcomes
what is truly so
replacing
pride and greedy possession
humility
wholehearted confession
hollow my cramped and crushing places
with gratitude and stunning graces
losing
the self that I call mine
I conduct the show
until I find
simple threads of my new vestment
three ring circus of contentment
Poem through Debra Asis, by the grace of Infinite Generativity
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Lisa Kelly’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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