Another great one from Ignatian Spirituality Website!
Many of you who know me, know that Margaret Silf is one of my all time favorite writers, and someone I would love to meet one day. Below Jim Manney provides a short synopsis of suggestions from Margaret Silf’s book Inner Compass on how to move forward when we feel stuck!
by Jim Manney
Some ideas for moving forward, from Margaret Silf:
- Tell God, and maybe a human friend, how you feel, and ask them to pry you away from the negative force fields, even though you really want to stay where you are, in isolation.
- Force yourself to make contact with other people; go to town, walk around the market, make yourself a meal, phone a friend, even though you don’t feel like doing any of these things.
- Do just one thing that needs doing (perhaps some small practical task), and then enjoy the satisfaction of having done it. Give yourself a pat on the back; then look for the next “one thing.”
- Make a deliberate effort to reach out to the need of another person, maybe someone with similar difficulties, even though you really don’t want to know about anyone else right now.
- Pick up a project that really fired your imagination when you were in consolation. Let it refresh you with positive energy, even though you don’t actually want to do anything at all.
- Stay with the decisions you made, the dreams you dreamed when in consolation, even though you really feel like giving up on life.
- Remember moments of consolation when God seemed close to you, and reenact them in your mind, even though you are tempted to dismiss them.
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