Daily Meditation: God's powerlessness

Saturday March 1, 2014 God's powerlessness Jesus is God-with-us, Emmanuel.  The great mystery of God becoming human is God's desire to be loved by us.  By becoming a vulnerable child, completely dependent on human care, God wants to take away all distance between the human and the divine.  Who can be afraid of a little child that needs to be fed, to be cared for, to be taught, to be guided?  We usually talk about God as the all-powerful, almighty God on whom we depend completely.  But God wanted to become the all-powerless, all-vulnerable God who completely depends on us.  How can we be afraid of a God who wants to be "God-with-us" and needs us to become "Us-with-God"?   Lenten book discussion starts March 5th. Please click here for information. "The Spirit and Practice of Excellence" call-in seminar is happening on March 20th. For more information and to register, please click here. Comment on this Daily Meditation.   Visit our website for inspiration, resources, news, events, community. Text excerpts taken from Bread for the Journey, by Henri J.M. Nouwen, ©1997 HarperSanFrancisco. All Scripture from The Jerusalem Bible ©1966, 1967, and 1968 Darton, Longman & Todd and Doubleday & Co. Inc. Photo by V. Dobson.

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