It’s like “rummaging for God through a drawer full of stuff, feeling around, looking for something that you are sure must be there.”
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500 years ago, Ignatius took notes on his own prayer experience and then developed methods to teach others called Spiritual Exercises.
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St Ignatius claimed that if we were only going to pray one prayer, make it be the Examen. He called it a gift that came directly from God, that God wanted it to be shared as widely as possible.
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“Conduct your blooming in the noise and whip of the whirlwind,” is what poet Gwendolyn Brooks said, a quote I’ve kept for a long time.
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I love praying with these timeless, wonder questions of scripture: “What is the Kingdom of God like?” the Kindom of God, or God’s Dream?
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“Imagine that you were locked down. Normal living and daily routines were lost, taken over by a new reality. Mornings and evenings gave way to a blur of sameness.
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According to Ignatius, we don’t listen to scripture in order to break open its’ meaning. We listen to scripture to break open our meaning. God meets us where we are, individually, in the moment.
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I can’t imagine a world of the condemned, one with devils, snakes, and poisons. But today, Jesus asks us to imagine one.
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It’s easy to imagine this scene: being in the hungry, approaching crowd, feeling famished and needing new life; or feeling like one of the bewildered disciples, doubting and questioning what Jesus wants to do.
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Ignatius believed that God uses the gift of our creative imaginations when we pray with scriptures. Composition of Place invites us to “locate” ourselves in the reading, to be present to the real places, people, objects and events of the story and actively engage with the scene.
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