I Must Surrender Myself Completely: obedience ????
Where do I need to surrender? Alfred Delp, SJ
Surrender. Roll over. Be obedient.
Not if it means subordinating me
to a dogmatic despot.
The question is, obedient to what?
Knowing God is
Sanguine seed of desire
Ceaseless source of gifts
Startling satisfaction of hope
Be obedient
Listen to deepest heart desire
Cultivate freely given gifts
Magnify hearty hopefulness
Be free from
vanity’s full length mirror
amplifying self-interest
aggrandizing pride
Be free to
welcome every moment
acquit my wish for things
to be other than they are
Obedience
bears freedom
to be and to be blessed
in reality
Alfred Delp, 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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