Before I left for Indonesia, I submitted my monthly post for IgnatianSpirituality.com about my pending first trip off the continent.
I wrote about the need to harness the audacity of the first Jesuits to step foot on the plane and go further than I had ever been before (a dozen or so hours by plane further, in fact!)
Now that I am back on American soil rereading my pre-seminar thoughts that went live today, I am struck by the tangible presence of the first companions who I felt traveling with me throughout the experience. They were with me in the moments when I felt bold and courageous and even more so in the moments when I felt uncertain and unmoored.
Harnessing the audacity of the first companions of St. Ignatius during this trip reminded me again and again that working with God on God’s project is messy work. There are moments of grace and joy and forward movement as well as moments of exhaustion and failure and… well… turbulence!
But the work, no matter how messy and unpredictable, matters.
It did for the first companions, and it does for us.
Go on over to IgnatianSpirituality.com today to read why I chose to turn to the first companions and all the audacious Jesuits throughout history to give me the audacity to step on the plane and lean into the impossible.
Spoiler alert: It isn’t about THEIR audaciousness… it’s about where it comes from.
Read it all here:
