Day 7

Lent Day 7

"By the term "Spiritual Exercises" is meant every method of examination of conscience, of meditation, of contemplation, of vocal and mental prayer, and of other spiritual activities....For just as taking a walk, journeying on foot, and running are bodily exercises, so we call Spiritual Exercises every way of preparing and disposing the soul to rid itself of all inordinate attachments, and, after their removal, of seeking and finding the will of God..."

(From The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius edited by Louis J. Puhl, S.J.)

A suggestion for your prayer and meditation:

What are you most attached to?
A person?
An emotion?
A goal?

What do you do to rid yourself of inordinate or excessive attachment to these?
When you are able to do this, if even for a few seconds, how do you then go about seeking and finding God?
Pastor Patty Fox 40 Christian mystics in 40 days

I was asked a couple of weeks ago if I'm motivated by success or failure- whether my drive comes from wanting to achieve success or from a fear of failure. For me it's definitely the latter and that’s pretty unhealthy. It's an attachment I certainly need to work upon ridding myself of because it's when we allow ourselves to fail that we find something of God. On the face of it Jesus was a complete failure, yet he tells us everything we need to know of God.