Journeying Toward Freedom and Equity

https://ignatiansolidarity.net/blog/2021/03/09/grace-mercy-forgiveness-rooted-in-accountability/ The last few days of the Ignatian Reflection got me thinking. Our actions can be bold.  How is that?  Marching in protest rallies, calling on my Legislative Representatives when they make changes that make a difference for those who are working a full-time job and take home, (again take home), $400 a week…when just the rent is over $1000 a month or when food stamps are cut (food, a basic need).  It may also mean writing letters to the editor or signing a petition against gun violence.  Maybe it is looking at my own guns.  Maybe it is looking at my activities that are killing the air I breathe. My actions can also be a little quieter and more private.  Like the day I drove by a homeless man and felt guilty because I bought these awesome homemade oatmeal cookies and decided to give them to him.  That was a sacrifice, because when I had my afternoon coffee, ...

https://ignatiansolidarity.net/blog/2021/03/04/begin-to-heal             Wounded  parts-these are generally what we want to avoid in our lives. Who wants to face their own pain and suffering? In today's Ignatian Solidarity Network, Anna Robertson brings us face to face with the hidden struggles of our own interior lives:  “ When we fail to tend our wounds with compassion,  we often end up transmitting them onto others.”   For me, a midlife crisis that led to a 'dark night of the soul', gave me the opportunity to become deeply immersed in dealing with my wounded parts. Although this was a very challenging path, it led me to reconnect with Christ's Spirit in new ways that nourished my soul. As I faced my own wounds, my spiritual path led me to become aware of God/Christ within myself, as well as all people, and the world. I learned to see any daily irritations with other people as opportunities to learn more about myself, and what ol...

https://ignatiansolidarity.net/blog/2021/03/02/lamentation-fury-hope/           How do we wash ourselves clean? How do we put away our misdeeds? How do we make justice our aim? How do we set things right? The Lord tells us with certainty in today’s first reading from the first chapter of the Prophet Isaiah to hear and to listen and then to do. And Jesus tells us with certainty in today’s Gospel reading to serve. How we hear, how we listen, and how we do (serve) is up to us as individuals and as groups and communities of believers.           Do we trust God enough to make efforts to hear, to listen and to serve as God has told us?             When we trust God and make efforts to hear and to listen and to serve, God will show us ways, because God loves us more than we will ever know. God is more than worthy of our trust.             So many are struggling...