Where do you stand? conducting my head into my heart
What vows have you made that inform your life? Change the world? ‘On this day in 1534, Ignatius and six companions made private vows to join together in service of the Lord.’ Jim Manney
where do i stand when mind commands crescendo
and heart demands dwindling diminuendo?
what peace is hidden in the twist and tangle
of racing thought’s rapacious symphony?
what wagging finger directs downward motion
superintending sure authority?
where do i stand when mind commands crescendo
and heart demands dwindling diminuendo?
o, raucous mind, you’d do well to remember
your solemn promise to serve Something More
than dross and dregs of ardor’s idle dribble
and savor sustained peace on secure shore
where do i stand when mind commands crescendo
and heart demands dwindling diminuendo?
heart of heart, reclaim this mind
make me unswerving servant of my vow
with both feet planted in your ponderous presence
pregnant with imperishable now
Words through Debra Asis, by the grace of Infinite Generativity
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Jim Manney’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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