We Actually Feel This Way : star stuff
Everybody hurts. When I don’t have words to articulate my pain or frustration, I get crude. But crude is probably better than repressed. So I let ’em rip: Damn it. Damn. Damn. Damn it. Brian Busse, SJ
I want to tune my life to care
for family friends neighbors enemies
because
we are of the same star stuff
divine humanity
but
what I actually feel is fear
you will demand too much throw me over
but
if we are of the same star stuff
you cannot quit me
without quitting you
I want to lay my life down
for family friends neighbors enemies
because
we are of the same star stuff
divine humanity
what I actually feel is fear
you will betray or kill me
but
if we are of the same star stuff
divine humanity
you cannot crucify me
without crucifying you
I want to turn my life toward God
because
we are of the same star stuff
divine humanity
what I actually feel is fear
I will leave me behind
a stranger in a strange land
but
if we are of the same star stuff
divine humanity
I cannot be alien
and no land is foreign
Poem by Debra Asis
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Brian Busse, SJ s quote is found in Sunday’s selection in An Ignatian Book of Days by Jim Manney, SJ, 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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