The ‘I-Want-It-So-Badly’ Virus : banish the germ of insatiable appetite
I so wanted to get to the top of the company, or to attract that attractive person, or to be rich, or to be recognized as important, or to have the best house, or the have a more exciting life. In fact, we sometimes delude ourselves into thinking that the object of our affection… must be right for us precisely because we want it so badly. Chris Lowney
insatiable appetite sires
malignant virus
breaks into body
reproduces mind
deludes and makes me sick
woe to me when virulent germs
power praise position
magnify ‘I-Want-It-So-Badly’
infected… i am
in-firm
close my nose mind my eyes
master my mouth
lasso my lust
refuse to be defiled
by what loots my life
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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Debra Asis writing challenge
