Daily Meditation: God's Breath Given to Us

God's Breath Given to Us - from Henri Nouwen's Bread for the Journey Being the living Christ today means being filled with the same Spirit that filled Jesus.  Jesus and his Father are breathing the same breath, the Holy Spirit.  The Holy Spirit is the intimate communion that makes Jesus and his Father one.  Jesus says:  "I am in the Father and the Father is in me"  (John 14:10) and "The Father and I are one"  (John 10:30).  It is this unity that Jesus wants to give us.  That is the gift of his Holy Spirit. Living a spiritual life, therefore, means living in the same communion with the Father as Jesus did, and thus making God present in the world.     For further reflection ... "The Spirit gives life; the flesh counts for nothing.  The words I have spoken to you are spirit and they are life." - John 6: 63 Comment on this Daily Meditation. Summer book discussion on "Finding My Way Home" starts June 28th. Join us!   Click here to purchase audio recording of Caregiving from the Heart seminar.   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. Scripture chosen by L. Yeskoo.

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