One of the more difficult factors to accept in being created is that we are limited that is, we have actual limitations of all kinds. We have age, size, abilities, personality and gifts, but they are all bordered by our not being God. We are who and what we are by God’s creative love. Ignatius begins where we wish we might get to in time and with God’s care.

Why we are being created is the second major section of this basement platform. Ignatius was aware of the many answers humanity had proposed to answer this huge question. He had accepted that there is a God and that he and we are creatures, but now the next big question had to be solved. How he answered these big questions and how we are invited to answer them, determined his life’s style and will fashion ours. For Ignatius it was simple again, but not as easy to live.

With our limited selves, we are created to praise God for Who God is as infinite Creator, and for creating each of us with these sometimes-hard-to-accept, limitations. We are created as well to serve this Creating God with and through the gifts we have been given, of course, through and with these same limitations. No gift is meant just for ourselves, but they are gifts from God to me and through me to God’s creating family.

The third aspect forming the major section of this basement is that in order to serve in praise this God, we must reverence creation which possesses God’s finger prints. Reverencing God will become a way of living by our becoming aware of the very holy presence of this God in all other creatures. The challenge in our prayer is to be freed to reverence our own limitations enough so that in our life given to serve God, we gratefully allow those limitations to be public, yet prophetic.