Faith: Over the Dunes to Somewhere New

"From Manresa [in Spain] came a man [Ignatius] who had freely bound himself in joyful service to a king called Christ.  He had been so open to the inpouring of the Holy Spirit that he was able to interpret his own experience in a way that has universal validity and significance.  The fruit of this experience and the wisdom that it engendered is recorded in an unassuming little book called the Spiritual Exercises.  [Ignatius's] notebook was to become a guide, based entirely on his own experience, on how to become increasingly sensitive to God's action in our lives, on how to discover and live true to the very deepest desires within us, how to make decisions that reflect God's indwelling presence in the innermost freedom of our hearts, and how to join our lives consciously with the life of Jesus, God-made-man, through the living spirit of the gospel."

~ Margaret Silf, Inner Compass (1999)

I am SO excited.  I have found a priest willing to guide me through the Ignatian Exercises (the endless version, the one for people who can't just take a month off for the 30-day version) ~ a Jesuit for whom I have such tremendous admiration that it never occurred to me that he would just say, "Sure."  I am SO excited.  Did I already say that?  We start in a few weeks. 

Cavendish Dunes *****  PEI