My Life in God's Project, Movement #3: Compassion

Are you wanting to grow closer to God? Do you long to find a personal sense of purpose? Unsure how your spirituality relates to God’s desire to build a world of justice and peace?

My Life in God’s Project is an invitation to spend 30 weeks in daily prayer exploring these questions. This updated, contemporary adaptation of St. Ignatius Loyola’s Spiritual Exercises is a deep dive into discovering how your life fits into God’s Project. This retreat, made in the midst of daily life, will help you grow closer to God, understand God’s desires for you and the world, and better understand who God has called you to be and become. 

Movement Three: Compassion is the fourth of five sections of My Life in God's Project. This movement, which is designed to be prayed over the course of five weeks, invites you to consider the cost of choosing to follow God's Project as you accompany Jesus through his Passion. Compassion is designed to be prayed as part of the larger retreat. 

Who believes what we’ve heard and seen?
Who would have thought God’s saving power would look like this?

...He was beaten, he was tortured,
but he didn’t say a word.
Like a lamb taken to be slaughtered
and like a sheep being sheared,
he took it all in silence.
Justice miscarried, and he was led off—
and did anyone really know what was happening?
He died without a thought for his own welfare,
beaten bloody for the sins of my people...

Still, it’s what God had in mind all along...
The plan was that he give himself as an offering for sin
so that he’d see life come from it—life, life, and more life.
And God’s [Project] will deeply prosper through him.
—Isaiah 53:1, 7-10 (The Message)