What Are Your Non-Negotiables : what would it take to be free?
What assumptions underlie our thinking as we look at our choices? What vision of the ‘good life’ do we hold onto? What dream have we been pursuing? The point is not necessarily to put these things aside. The point is to become aware of the hold they have on us so that we can be free to choose as God would have us choose. J. Michael Sparough, SJ
do i fight life
stir surplus strife?
do i wearily wish
away what is?
do i snivel and sob
when riches are robbed?
do i carelessly lose
life when i refuse
to welcome my portion
of wealth and misfortune?
would not it be worthy
to re-route my journey?
attend my hearth fire
rekindle desire?
banish binding walls
extend welcome to all?
Debra Asis
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J. Michael Sparough, 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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