After a leg damage whereas strolling the Ignatian Camino, Brendan McManus, SJ, struggled to be grateful and discover God within the expertise. He writes:
Ignatius managed to show his leg damage and convalescence into a brand new approach of referring to God. His irritating immobility turned the second the place he realised that God was talking to him. Not with the ability to be the dashing soldier helped him to get up to the fact that God was talking to him inside his life expertise. May I flip this incapacitating damage into one thing extra constructive, extra of God, and will I discover gratitude?
Slowly my leg healed, and I started to understand what others had been doing for me in the home, serving to me to get by the day. Then I used to be in a position to give a course on prayer within the native parish by an area man who kindly drove me there as soon as every week. I knew one thing of what it means to desert your self to God, to position your self in God’s fingers, as I used to be unable to do a lot else. Paradoxically, the expertise of convalescence teaches loads of truths about how a lot we’re depending on others, how fragile we actually are, how the world will get on with out us (we’re not that indispensable), and the way God wants us to pay attention and be taught.
Learn the complete story, “Limping within the Footsteps of Ignatius Loyola,” on the Irish Jesuit province weblog. Parts of the story function in Fr. Brendan’s e-book, The Method to Manresa: Discoveries Alongside the Ignatian Camino.
