Nothing Is More Practical Than Finding God: Where could she possibly not be?
Pedro Arrupe, SJ writes, “Nothing is more practical than finding God, than falling in love in a quite absolute, final way. What you are in love with, what seizes your imagination, will affect everything. It will decide what will get you out of bed in the morning, what you do with your evenings…. what breaks your heart…. what amazes you…”
There God Is As God Is Not
Every visible vine and valley
filled with invisible vim
Every manifest mountain and mammal
made with mercurial gin
Every perishable palace and person
produced with impalpable grin
There God is as God is not
With a whisper of warrant and wonder
charging changeless and changing alike
Taste invisible, mercurial, impalpable Presence
with manifest delight
Poem by Debra Asis
Pedro Arrupe, SJ quote above is found 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.
INVITATION
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All words are generated by grace and the grit of a real human being,
Debra Asis
