Then Jesus said to him, ‘What do you want me to do for you?’” The blind man said to him, “My teacher, let me see again.” Jesus said to him, “Go; your faith has made you well.” Immediately he regained his sight and followed him on the way. (Mark 10) From Sacred Space, the prayer book of 2011
Do we really want to see? And what do we want to see? Ignatian spirituality to me means aligning ourselves with God’s way of seeing through seeking God in the everyday. The question on the …

I once had an instructor who remarked, “Whoever heard of someone entering the Catholic Church because of the Nicene Creed?” My difficulty with this statement at the time was that I had returned to the Church specifically because I had found, articulated in the Creed, something about the mystery of God revealed in terms that spoke to my heart. In this instructor’s comment I recognized that something felt wrong. After some thought, I was able to articulate the sense that a sort of caricature was being drawn. …

My life is simple.  I wake up everyone morning.  I eat breakfast.  I hug my family goodbye and then I go to work.  After what feels like an eternity, I finish my work day and head on to some other familial responsibility.  Eventually, I end up in my bed, tired beyond measure, and fall into the abyss of sleep.
God is in there somewhere I just know it.  One of the blessings of the spiritual exercises is that they cultivate an awareness of God in real time, even in the mundane. …

“What do you want?” This is one of the most basic questions in Ignatian spirituality, but also, at times, one of the most difficult to answer. In my pre-Ignatian days, I used to think that, when faced with choices about a possible course of action, God would probably want me to pick the harder one, or the one that seemed less appealing, or the one the seemed “more spiritual” in whatever way I happened to be thinking “more spiritual” meant. It was something of a liberation to learn from my …