How To Correct Others : conduct from your heart

Debra Asis
2 min readDec 27, 2024

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For correction to be successful it will help much if the corrector has some authority and acts with great affection, an affection that can be recognized. If either of these qualities is absent the correction will fail… St. Ignatius Loyola

correction made from outside the edge
is like rubbing sandpaper on metal
expecting to spur its resonant gong
what can possibly go wrong?

to rouse metal’s round ringing sound
raise the soft mallet of your heart
conduct a polished touch
what can possibly go wrong?

Debra Asis
All words are generated by grace and the grit of this real human being.

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St. Ignatius Loyola’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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Debra Asis
Debra Asis

Written by Debra Asis

Noticing Ordinary Holiness along the way I aim to read the gospel of life in nature, poetry, art and every messy moment of my ordinary life.

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