Persevere In Patience : consider a lizard stalking cat
When one is in desolation (s)he should try to persevere in patience. This reacts against the vexations that have overtaken (her)him… consider, too, that consolation will soon return. The Spiritual Exercises 321
wait wait
wait like an imperturbable grasshopper
watching grass grow with no concern for tomorrow
wait wait
wait like a self-possessed cat stalking a lizard
rapt in unruffled anticipation
wait wait
wait until dawn delivers feathered things
chasing the gloomy rumor from your gut
wait wait
wait until emptiness spills
fills the brim of your hollow hand
wait wait
wait until the irresistible urge for life
overtakes dread desolation
Words through Debra Asis, by the grace of Infinite Generativity
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The Spiritual Exercise 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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