Love The Heretics : we are all odd ducks

Debra Asis
2 min readOct 23, 2024

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What does it mean to have esteem and love for people with whom we are having serious disagreements? Jim Manney

am i a heretic?
are you?
who decides?
what is true?
what if rather than seeking fame
storing relics and acclaim
i set aside my opinion
stop insisting on dominion
lay away my plenty pride
listen holy to your side
might i be stretched in spaciousness
to recognize your preciousness
though eye to eye we do not see
on most matters do not agree
am i a heretic?
are you?
who decides?
what is true?

Words through Debra Asis, by the grace of Infinite Generativity

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George Aschenbrenner, SJ’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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Debra Asis
Debra Asis

Written by Debra Asis

Noticing Ordinary Holiness along the way I aim to read the gospel of life in nature, poetry, art and every messy moment of my ordinary life.

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