Salvation Is Not Comfortable: Breaking the bones of youth
Salvation is not gentle application of Vaseline to a small cut, but the breaking and resetting of ill-set bones. John Harriott SJ
When I was a child
like silly putty I made myself
whatever helped my heart stop fretting
scheming to escape
punishment and hell
When I was a young adult
like a mad dog biting a bone
I tasted every temptation
stealing
squints of heaven
When I was a middle adult
like Aphrodite peering in her mirror
I faced my face
humbled
revived authenticity
Now I am even older
redeemed from the inside out
living in love
with Love
singing a new song
Breaking
the brittle bones of youth
salvation
clarifies my core
awakens being One
Poem by Debra Asis
John Harriot, SJ’s above question is found in today’s selection 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
