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.
Tuesday, July 1, 2014
Spirituality: "Resistance to Change" by Richard Rohr in "Breathing Underwater"
What the ego hates more than anything else in the world is to change- even when the present situation is not working or is horrible. Instead, we do more and more of what does not work, as many others have rightly said about addicts, and, I would say, about all of us. The reason we do anything one more time is because the last time did not really satisfy us deeply. As English poet W.H. Auden put it in "Apropos of Many Things": "We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the present and let our illusions die.
Change is never easy for the person making the change nor for those affected by it. I am discerning that very thing right now. Thanks for these thoughts.
ReplyDeleteThe way change is introduced to us in enormously helpful. It makes a difference in the way we receive it and process it.
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