Two Exercises In Gratitude : taste the coffee
Go through a day — or a single hour — and discipline yourself to attend to each moment as it comes and to note what is praiseworthy in that moment. Try to build the habit of dwelling completely in the moment at hand rather than in the past or future. Vinita Hampton Wright
flood light above my writing desk
warms my defenseless shoulders
paints waning moon shadows
beatifies basic breakfast
soft oat grist almonds fresh figs
spin pas de trois on my tongue
smelling slurping swishing
midnight Super Creama
chases dancers off stage
leaves molasses on my lingua
lingering
last lick of breakfast
swapping spoon for pencil
i kowtow to now
steal another swig of black brew
wait
savor silent hum
virgin morning mourning
solitary peace waves
her velvet boughs rising
receive breaking in of day
ah
praise God for delicious morning
drenched in dappled light
Words through Debra Asis, by the grace of Infinite Generativity
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Vinita Hampton Wright’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.
INVITATION
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