This submit is predicated on Week One among An Ignatian Prayer Journey.
So typically in our lives we wish that huge image, the clear highway map, the understanding of the infinite, whether or not it’s to know what the longer term will carry, what life’s goal is, and even the place this Ignatian Journey may lead. However skipping to the top of the e-book would miss the purpose. Being human means we are able to’t know the entire image. No human in historical past has clearly seen his or her full highway map, so it isn’t going to start out with me.
Religion means making the journey despite the fact that we don’t know the way it will finish. All I actually have is the current second, and every second holds a goal. In every second I get to choose to maintain my ft firmly planted within the huge love of God for me or to let my disordered attachments pull me into actions and worldviews that take me away from reflecting that love.
St. Ignatius acknowledged in his Precept and Basis that we are able to simply be preoccupied with what our lives will likely be down the highway: Will I be wealthy or poor? Will I be sick or wholesome? Will I stay an extended life or a brief one? And in that preoccupation we miss the presence of the Spirit within the present second. How can I “reward, reverence, and serve God” proper now? On this second? On this one little motion or gesture? The alternatives we make inside every second will carry us one step nearer to or farther from our coronary heart’s want. Our goal in life want be no larger than our goal on this very second. What’s yours?
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