Ignatius said that if his religious order were dissolved, it would take him 15 minutes of prayer to be at peace.
The trap that is always before us is that we can invest so much of who we are in what we do that our identity and value as a human being becomes directly tied to what we do.
And while it is right and proper that we should develop our skills and knowledge in the work we are given to do, we must keep alive the tension that comes from responding to God’s call to trust him with all of our life. The sin is found in trusting ourselves to ourselves or our work or anything other than primarily trusting ourselves to God. It’s sinful because we miss the mark by not allowing God to form us into fully human beings in the ways that he wants to.
Lord, please help me to keep aware of that tension and allow you always to have your way in my life. Amen.
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And where does our emotional life come into it? I again quote the Jesuit writer Gerrard Hughes":
"It is astonishing that we pay so little attention to this inner (emotional) life. We are like riders on wild horses. They rear plunge and swerve. We spend all our energy and ingenuity on trying to keep in the sadlle, bucking our painful way through life. The obvious answer is to understand and befriend the horse, but in our ethos the horse must be ignored and we must ride with a stiff upper lip. Even in religious circles one can still hear the advice: Pay no attention to your feelings"
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