Speak With Our Hands : words are overrated
We must speak to them with our hands by giving, before we try to speak to them with our lips. St. Peter Claver, SJ
better to wash a wound than
pronounce têtê á têtê
better to beg for fruit than
divorce oneself from famine
better to hold a hand than
brainstorm hypothesis
better to raise a wall than
fabricate abstraction
better to bake bread
than concoct big ideas
better to dance two steps than
define pas de deux
better to speak with our hands than
pray for divine intervention
Words through Debra Asis, by the grace of Infinite Generativity
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St. Peter Claver, SJ’s 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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All words are generated by grace and the grit of a real human being,
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