Prayer

From Sacred Spaces

"I know, Lord, that we cannot live for ever on a charismatic high. I am lucky if from time to time you lift me out of myself. But for most of the time I have to be content with the routine of survival, living on faith, which is a mixture of light and darkness."

Expressing Feelings

From "Words Made Flesh" by Fran Ferder

"Men have been encouraged to be in tight control of their feelings and reminded not to cry. To the degree that they have internalized these messages, they have been stripped of some of their humanness. They have lost some of their richest resources for intimacy."

St. Ignatius Quotes

A thick and shapeless tree-trunk would never believe
that it could become a statue, admired as a miracle of sculpture,
and would never submit itself to the chisel of the sculptor,
who sees by her genius what she can make of it. (St Ignatius)
I ask for the grace to let myself be shaped by my loving Creator.

There are very few people
who realise what God would make of them
if they abandoned themselves into his hands,
and let themselves be formed by his grace. (St Ignatius)
I ask for the grace to trust myself totally to God's love.

Lenten Goal

I need to close out the noise, to rise above the noise;
The noise that interrupts, that separates,
The noise that isolates.
I need to listen to God again.