Use Natural Helps And Resources
Reflect on how you have used ‘natural things’ to deepen your spiritual life and enhance your service to others?
Rising, walking, breathing, noticing
sky pallet melts cobalt to cornflower blue
naturally helps
the purr in my throat
for Annie’s curtain call
Rising, walking, breathing, noticing
squishy earth cushioning my boots
naturally helps
the burr in my hip
from too much sitting
Rising, walking, breathing, noticing
raucous raven’s recitative
naturally helps
the echo of loneliness
murmuring my heart
Ahhhhh good earth
with all your caw and creatures
spilling comfort, cheer and chatter
from your greening womb
rise up, walk, breath and notice
this weeping rolling stone
Poem by Debra Asis
The 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
