Losing Your Life: a hole in my heart
Losing one’s life means jumping in even when failure is the likely outcome… life is to be given simply, without fanfare — like a waterfall, like a mother nursing her child, like the humble sweat of the sower of seed. Luis Espinal, SJ
There is a hole in my heart
unfathomable as ocean depths
insurmountable as Everest
food friends sex money power success
fail to fill the emptiness
So I chase air with a butterfly net
change careers
exchange lovers
Still the hole in my heart echoes
calls me from Everest
sits me in the hollow
bids me savor stillness
relish the ache
gather all I think
I cannot live without
liberty will possessions
all of my transgressions
everything for which I strive
all my angst to be alive
The hole in my heart counsels
lose your life to be free
refuse egoic peaks
desert despairing depths
give your life
to be the seed
of something more
you will not see
There is a hole in my heart
the unplumbed source of blessing
longing for me
to lose my life
Poem by Debra Asis
Luis Espinal, SJ’s above quote 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.
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All words are generated by grace and the grit of a real human being,
Debra Asis
