I'm not exactly a prayerful man. But I've taken to reading Sacred Space. It's a website managed by the Irish Jesuits. It's like a daily devotional - every day a short prayer is written, together with a reading from the Bible. It's a quick way to do the daily prayer that reviews your day (the "Examen," as the Latin-speaking old priests called it).
I was struck by this particular line attributed to St. Ignatius:
"The wrangled tree does not see itself as a statue, even as the sculptor takes her chisel and molds a masterpiece."
I wonder at times how am I being sculpted? How am I being remade?
I do not know where I am going, only that I hope I needn't go there alone.
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