July 31st is the feast day of Ignatius of Loyola, whose Spiritual Exercises are what I’m trained in for spiritual direction. I continue to draw great meaning from his reflections and guided practices, so his feast day remains special to me. I wrote this prayer years ago based on the culminating meditation of the Exercises, which is named the Contemplatio.
God in my pulse.
God in my blood.
God in my thinking.
God in my seeing.
God in my smelling.
God in my tasting.
God in my feeling.
God in my pleasure.
God in my joy.
God in my sorrow.
God in my confusion.
God in my eating.
God in my digesting.
God in my organs processing.
God in my brooding.
God in my learning.
God at my birth.
God in my first kiss.
God everywhere I’ve lived.
God in my imagining.
God present when I don’t feel like it.
God in my sleeping.
God in my dreaming.
God the ground of my being, in all.
Jeffrey A. Nelson 