Ignatius’ Optimism : why tolerate me?
Ho, everyone who thirsts, come to the waters; and you that have no money, come buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk, without money and without price. Isaiah 55.1
why me?
why not dismiss this trespasser
misusing mind body spirit
self substance abuse
refusing to see me?
why me?
why not annihilate this glutton
rapacious reaper of reward
driven by selfishness
refusing to see others?
why me?
why not abandon this apostate
brash renunciation
denying devotion
refusing to see You?
why me?
why remember the innocence
entombing
this terrified trespasser?
why me?
why protect the hunger
coveting
this hollow habitat?
why me?
why protect the silence
safeguarding
this solitary heart?
because…
You are faithful
without price
especially as
i am not
Words through Debra Asis, by the grace of Infinite Generativity
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Isaiah’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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