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Where Is It You Don’t Want to Go?

St. Ignatius with AMDG in book 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 provide temporary satisfaction, are they really leading us closer to God? Closer to where and who we are called to be?

St. Ignatius calls us constantly to go deeper, to be reflective and aware of the emptiness of those surface solutions. Where is it you don’t want to go? That’s likely exactly where Ignatius would take you.

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Lisa Kelly

Lisa Kelly is a wife, mother, and Ignatian Associate living in Omaha, Nebraska. She works to help organizations integrate spirituality into their planning and systems. She and her husband, Tom, completed the 19th Annotation in 2005, just prior to spending two years living in the Dominican Republic with their three young children, supporting the work of the Jesuit Institute for Latin American Concern. Additionally they have lived in El Salvador and Bolivia for extended periods.

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Dr.Cajetan Coelho December 21, 2023 At 6:59 pm

Thanks. Ignatian spirituality offers inspiration for our onward journey.

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noel September 15, 2011 At 5:20 am

……it is teaching me so much

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Carol September 8, 2011 At 11:16 pm

This posting has been so helpful

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