Humility and Hope

The happy should be humble; the suffering should be hopeful… all we have comes from God and God gives us all we need. Jim Manney SJ

Sun stream scintillates
a single snow bound bough
10,000 others limp unlit
waiting for the bright side
hoping for hope

Creama swirl crowns
woody tart coffee
Pink Pearl eraser waits
to annul my leaden nonsense
fix me in humility

Heart bent on the brim of weeping
I admit poverty
Life is not what I make it
Life is how
I lean toward good
consent to what arises
erase my pride
free for hope
incarnate humility

Poem by Debra Asis

Jim Manney, SJ’s above question is found in 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