Make peace with pain,
Its coming, stealthy or sudden,
is certain as winter’s sunset.
A chosen companion on our lifetime journey,
entrusted with blessed task to do.
Make friends with pain.
Embrace its searing scalpel touch
waiting to mine a cross of gold
buried deep within and waiting
your choice of fuller, richer life.
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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