Something to think about ¦ How do you “know” if you have “found God” in something, in a moment of your day? For me it is like hitting a hard reset on my computer; It is reconnecting to my mission, to that which makes me tick and makes me seek goodness. It is the self-awareness [...]
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It’s a problem we’ve all experienced: we deeply desire something; we think God has put the desire in our hearts; but it seems impossible that we’ll ever have it. Ignatius had a suggestion, Lisa Kelly says: Ignatius told his companions that the solution to dealing with this tension . . . is to step back [...]
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Lisa Kelly looks at the transcendent moments of enlightenment experienced by Ignatius, Mother Teresa, Einstein, and a few others. These visions can’t really be described, but these mystics speak of similar insights, which she calls “habits of the heart.” Here’s one: Get outside yourself—Stop judging and start observing, observing, observing. Be aware of what is [...]
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Lisa Kelly has an idea for the ultimate Ignatian gift. Actually it’s two gifts. Read about them here.
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Lisa Kelly says that consolation is sometimes painful: On the surface, we fun-seeking humans will do lots of things that are not of God to avoid feeling bad, to avoid the aches of the heart. We shop. We eat. We yell. We procrastinate. We deny the reality before us. But while each of those may [...]
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This Ignatian Life is a blog well worth following. I like the tagline — Ignatian Spirituality in Real Time. Read this post by Lisa Kelly about her ailing father’s questions, and an answer from Ignatius. “What are we doing here? What’s this all about? What are we waiting for?” My 81-year old father, suffering from [...]
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I try to take some time time to pray each morning, and recently I changed my prayer spot. I’d been in the habit of sitting on a couch in the downstairs living room. The TV is nearby. It’s the same couch I sit on to watch the World Series, Seinfeld reruns, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Masterpiece [...]
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Here is a prayer for the beginning of the work week. It’s a reworking of Oscar Romero’s poem “Prophets of a Future Not Our Own,” by Lisa Kelly at the Ignatian Life blog. She did it, she says, “to remind myself that while I am not the Master Builder, I am the worker, present in [...]
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