When We’re Desolate, Fight Back: The seed of consolation is hidden in desolation
When we’re feeling low, we seldom want to rouse ourselves to extra effort. But that’s precisely what we need to do, according to Ignatius. Fight it. Pray more. Get active. Jim Manney
The will to fight, muster to win
to stake your claim and not give in
hold tight your aim and carry on
past casualties and grave alarm
Refusing to forego the right
to mine extinction for new life
with laser focused will to drive
wreck from reign and to survive
Let worry, woe and war compel
fair fight to drive wreck straight to hell
drilling for consolation’s cede
hidden in desolation’s deed
Poem by Debra Asis
Jim Manney’s above quote is found in to 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
