Table of Contents
Chapter 1 A Way of Proceeding What Is Ignatian Spirituality? 1
Chapter 2 The Six Paths Spiritual, Religious, Spiritual but Not Religious, and Everything in Between 29
Chapter 3 What Do You Want? Desire and the Spiritual Life 57
Chapter 4 Beautiful Yesterdays Finding God and Letting God Find You 86
Chapter 5 Beginning to Pray So I've Found God... Now What? 103
Chapter 6 Friendship with God Father Barry's Insight 115
Chapter 7 God Meets You Where You Are Ignatian Traditions of Prayer 143
Chapter 8 The Simple Life The Surprising Freedom of Downward Mobility 174
Chapter 9 Like the Angels? Chastity, Celibacy, and Love 213
Chapter 10 More by Deeds Than by Words Friendship and Love 231
Chapter 11 Surrendering to the Future Obedience, Acceptance, and Suffering 266
Chapter 12 What Should I Do? The Ignatian Way of Making Decisions 305
Chapter 13 Be Who You Is! Work, Job, Career, Vocation... and Life 339
Chapter 14 The Contemplative in Action Our Way of Proceeding 389
A Question-and-Answer Session with James Martin, S.J. 399
Questions for Personal Reflection or Reading Groups 402
Ten Things You (Almost) Didn't Know About Jesuits 409
Friends in the Lord 411
Acknowledgments 415
For Further Exploration 417
Index 423