No Commonplace Achievements : seeking something radically new
Are you trying to make marginal improvements while God is asking for something radically new? James Manney
Church leaders whimper and wail
our cautious efforts stall then fail
stop rearranging pews
God is asking for something
radically new
check your rules and regulations
how they sabotage relations
stop rearranging pews
God is asking for something
radically new
does the heart of your instruction
breed creation or extinction
stop rearranging pews
God is asking for something
radically new
choose to be robust leaven
remake old forms create new haven
stop rearranging pews
God is asking for something
radically new
commit to stretch beyond the norm
of hero’s hope great things are born
stop rearranging pews
God is asking for something
radically new
Words through Debra Asis, by the grace of Infinite Generativity
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Jim Manney’s question 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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