Knowledge Doesn’t Satisfy The Heart : Aunt Frances’ teacup does
For it is not so much knowledge that fills and satisfies the soul, but the intimate understanding and relish of the truth.
Ignatian Spiritual Exercises 2
eyes closed
waiting for words
full form rounded sense swells
Aunt Frances* hovers
blushed peach softness
depthless ocean eyes
peek beyond time’s rimmed
Royal Albert trimmed teacup
collects fleeting moment
savors subtle wink
quiet smile passes over
death’s parting decree
piercing
embracing
all the wise words and doctrine
freeze and fail me
still
i am melted assured
sipping unassailable silence
from Aunt Frances’ teacup
*Aunt Frances, my Godmother, the human who truly mothered me, died eight years ago.
Debra Asis
All words are generated by grace and the grit of this real human being.
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The Ignatian Spiritual Exercise 2 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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