Lost Children: prodigal giving away the pearl
God empties God’s self in bringing back to God’s self the estranged, lost children… (paraphrased) Ruth Burrows OCD
Not a Medium member? No problem. click on this link and read away! https://medium.com/@dasis/companions-of-jesus-made-of-spit-and-dust-9cb5fd1db6a0
The more of g-o-d I gave away
the more God gave God’s self to me
prodigal giving away the pearl
wasteful? extravagant?
reckless? munificent?
prodigal me turning away
prodigal God refusing to stray
prodigal me wasting treasure
prodigal God lavish without measure
prodigal me meekly turns round
prodigal God’s welcome is unbound
prodigal giving away the pearl
wasteful? extravagant?
reckless? munificent?
The more of g-o-d I gave away
the more God gave God’s self to me
Poem by Debra Asis
You may also like Hate The Disorder In Your Own Soul or Wounded In Battle
If you appreciate this blog
please stay on the site for 30+ seconds and clap as many times as you like!
Subscribe for an email whenever I post. Thank you.
Ruth Burrows OCD’s quote is found in today’s selection in An Ignatian Book of Days by Jim Manney, SJ, 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
Would you like to join me? The book is accessible on Amazon. Let me know in the comments to this post and sign up to get an email whenever I post. I would love to read your reflections too, public or private messages welcome!
If you find this post meaningful please clap and leave a comment. If you have not yet, please subscribe to receive an email when I post. Thank you!
Learn more about me at
https://www.debraasis.org
All words are generated by grace and the grit of a real human being,
Debra Asis
