John Predmore, S.J., is a USA East Province Jesuit and was the pastor of Jordan's English language parish. He teaches art and directs BC High's adult spiritual formation programs. Formerly a retreat director in Gloucester, Massachusetts. Ignatian Spirituality is given through guided meditations, weekend-, 8-day, and 30-day Retreats based on The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola. Ignatian Spirituality serves the contemporary world as people strive to develop a friendship with God.
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Sunday, May 25, 2014
Poem: "The Uses of Sorrow" by Mary Oliver
(In my sleep I dreamed this poem)
Someone I love once gave me
a box full of darkness.
It took me years to understand
that this, too, was a gift.
John, I have read this poem previously and it has given me great insight into a time of darkness in my life. The Lord turned that time into a gift of freedom to be the person God created me to be. These few words are incredibly powerful. Thanks for posting this.
Often it takes months or years to see the gift contained within the darkness. It doesn't feel good when you go through the period, but we are more human afterwards.
John, I have read this poem previously and it has given me great insight into a time of darkness in my life. The Lord turned that time into a gift of freedom to be the person God created me to be. These few words are incredibly powerful. Thanks for posting this.
ReplyDeleteOften it takes months or years to see the gift contained within the darkness. It doesn't feel good when you go through the period, but we are more human afterwards.
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