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Praying the Examen: A guide for the curious.
When Ignatius of Loyola instructed his friends in how they could make prayer a continual part of their life, he said if they could only make one, they must not neglect “the prayer of Examen.”
Feeling the voice of God.
Some time ago, one of my jobs was to ghostwrite for the company’s CEO—an authentic character of a man with a thick Buffalo and the patience of pitbull. I’d compose newsletters, emails, columns, even journal articles and book chapters, as him, usually from scratch. At first, I might spend as much as 15 minutes with him for a three-paragraph letter or the idea for an article.
That which is done: The art of interiorization.
Every morning I wake up, I nearly hit my head on a ceiling of all that I might want to accomplish. They accumulate at different heights. Hanging just above me as I sleep is the rent check I still need to deliver. At sitting-up height are two of the articles I could have written by now, which are in the shadows of all the articles I know I can and so probably should compose at some point.