Make My Heart Still : unfurl morning glory
Lord, take my poor heart. It is often so far from you, lost in a thousand things and in the trifles that fill up my everyday life. Lord, only you can collect the thoughts of my heart and have it concentrate on you, you who are the center of all hearts… Karl Rahner, SJ
exhale
gold bracelet bounds
rounding mountain silhouette
soundless morning crowns
warmed wind settles
feathered creatures sleep
silent willows weep
inhale
dawning beauty
nail it to my smarting heart
rapt in want
and yesterday
i bury the better part
oh
to be free
to breath my heart
silent still
unfurl fleeting moment’s
immaculate start
Poem by Debra Asis
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Karl Rahner, SJ’s prayer is found in Sunday’s selection in An Ignatian Book of Days by James Martin, 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.
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