Waiting On A Serious Choice : find refuge in a tortoise shell
If we wait when alternatives are emerging…we will try not to favor one over the others until we are clear whether God is telling us something.
Joseph Tetlow, SJ
can you watch ice melt?
find refuge in a tortoise shell?
forget grousing and strain
scamming and game
resist stalking force
rash change of course
fanning frustration’s fist?
before beginning
the end insist?
tying your yoke to Sisyphus?
can you watch ice melt?
find refuge in a tortoise shell?
trace shadows
watch moon wax night swell?
lay time to rest
without protest
welcome hallowed emptiness
dedicated to be led
by auspicious golden thread?
Words through Debra Asis, by the grace of Infinite Generativity
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Joseph Tetlow, 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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