Ignatian
Spirituality In Music
You Have Everything You Need
Gentle, rhythmic song with inspirational refrain. We are invited to be at peace and recognize God’s reassuring message in water, forest leaves and clouds: You already have what you need. Three verses. SMATB & Flute
Lyric Outtake
See the holy light
streaming through rifts in the canopy,
through sheltering layers of forest leaves.
Overhead on wooded lace
their million voices say:
Refrain:
You have everything you need.
Everything you need.
Come. Rest in God’s presence.
You have everything you need.
Quotes to Consider
"Some people are put off because their first attempts to preach
go badly; to them Humbert [of Romans] points out that if you want to do
anything well, you must be prepared to begin by doing it badly" (Tugwell,
140).
"… the whole thing boils down to giving ourselves in prayer
a chance to realize that we have what we seek. We don’t have to rush
after it. It is there all the time, and if we give it time it will make
itself known to us." --Thomas Merton (Healey MSW, 61)
"The central disposition for discernment is trustful surrender--trust
in the love, the promises, the fidelity, and the providential care of
God--to the initiatives and actions of God" (Houdek, 116).
"… anxiety takes the place of the scorned poverty. In the final
analysis man has one of two choices: to obediently accept his innate poverty
or to become the slave of anxiety" (Metz, 31).
(See "This Is Jesus" song for compatible quotes)
Scriptures for Meditation
| Ps 32 | The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want |
| Lk 12: 22-34 | Consider the lilies of the field, the birds |
| Rom 8: 31-39 | If God is for us, who can be against |
| Mt 14: 28-33 | Peter started walking on the water |
| Lk 21: 1-4 | This poor widow has put in more than all of them |
| Jn 14: 1-7 | I am the way, the truth, and the life |
| Jn 3: 30 | He must increase, but I must decrease |
| Lk 9: 1-6 | Take nothing for your journey, no staff, no bag, and no bread |
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