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In a recent issue of “The Way,” a spirituality journal of the British Jesuits, a writer compared the 12 steps of Alcoholic Anonymous with the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius. Both recognize that without a Higher Power, God, in my life, my life can easily follow the wrong path and even spin out of control.
Like St. Teresa of Avila, I have a skull on my desk. Two, actually – one plain and one riotously decorated in green and purple. I think they’re funny; they remind me not to take myself, or the world, too seriously.