{"id":264,"date":"2014-01-17T00:00:36","date_gmt":"2014-01-17T00:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/mission-and-identity\/?p=264"},"modified":"2019-09-18T16:51:26","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T20:51:26","slug":"jan-17-an-invitation-at-weeks-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2014\/01\/17\/jan-17-an-invitation-at-weeks-end\/","title":{"rendered":"Jan 17 – an invitation at week’s end"},"content":{"rendered":"

Friday \u00a0January 17, \u00a0“what amazes you with joy”\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I’ve found the week’s news wore me down some. \u00a0 Lots of slam-bang excitement at the new-look Cobo Center’s auto show; \u00a0a roller-coaster ride with Detroit’s bankruptcy proceedings as its process approaches deal makers and deal breakers; \u00a0Congress passing a spending bill that lasts longer than 4 weeks; \u00a0first moves by Detroit’s new mayor; \u00a0sifting the governor’s State of the State for clues; waiting for word about UDMPU\/UDM; 2 young basketball teams playing & learning in Calihan \u00a0. . . boatloads of events looking for attention.<\/span><\/div>\n
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I need to pay\u00a0\u00a0attention to\u00a0more ordinary commitments as well: \u00a0a friend’s teen ager who passed her state math test second time around, thrilling herself and her mom; \u00a0another friend whose supervisor passed along the Springsteen-Buffet slam on Governor Christie’s traffic jam, knowing that their tastes are similar, “a good supervisor for me”; \u00a0loads of friends sick and tired of being sick and tired; some friends living with grief over a beloved presence passing. \u00a0 \u00a0 Friday is a good day to breathe a little, and savor a week full of living, to notice stuff.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Many Jesuits consider Pedro Arrupe one of their life heroes. \u00a0He was elected Superior General in 1965 and led the world wide Jesuits out into a new identity — to fall in love with the world and commit ourselves to living “a faith that does justice.” He died in 1981 and comes close to defining what the word “saint” means to me. \u00a0Here’s a saying attributed to him. \u00a0 \u00a0Have a good weekend.<\/span><\/div>\n
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john st sj<\/span><\/div>\n
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Nothing is more practical than finding God,<\/span><\/p>\n

that is, than falling in love in a quite absolute, final way.<\/span><\/p>\n

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What you are in love with,\u00a0\u00a0 what seizes your imagination,<\/span><\/p>\n

will affect everything.<\/span><\/p>\n

It will decide what will get you out of bed in the morning,<\/span><\/p>\n

what you will do with your evenings,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

how you spend your weekends,<\/span><\/p>\n

what you read,\u00a0\u00a0 who you know,\u00a0\u00a0 what breaks your heart,<\/span><\/p>\n

and what amazes you with joy and gratitude.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Fall in love;\u00a0 stay in love,<\/span><\/p>\n

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Friday \u00a0January 17, \u00a0“what amazes you with joy”\u00a0 I’ve found the week’s news wore me down some. \u00a0 Lots of slam-bang excitement at the new-look Cobo Center’s auto show; \u00a0a roller-coaster ride with Detroit’s bankruptcy proceedings as its process approaches … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":139,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11641],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/139"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3134,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions\/3134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}