Wisdom Calls: dark to dark
Sometime in your life hope that you might see one starved man, the look on his face when bread finally arrives. Hope that you might have baked it or bought it or even kneaded it yourself. For that look on his face, for your meeting his eyes across a piece of bread, you might be willing to lose a bit, or suffer a lot, or die a little, even. Daniel Kerrigan, SJ
step into darkness survey night
what i cannot see
shepherds the way
i cannot know
wisdom calls
dark to dark
whispering language
of the heart
panhandler’s palm is empty
vagrant’s vacant eyes forlorn
smelling perfume of deprivation
i stumble on holiness
wisdom calls
dark to dark
whispering language
of the heart
step into darkness
danger destitution despair
satisfying my mission
i taste holy tears
wisdom calls
dark to dark
whispering language
of the heart
Poem by Debra Asis
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Daniel Berrigan’s quote is found in 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.
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