Daily Meditation: Baptism: Becoming Children of the Light

Baptism:  Becoming Children of the Light - from Henri Nouwen's Bread for the Journey When Jesus appears for the last time to his disciples, he sends them out into the world saying:  "Go, ... make disciples of all nations;  baptise them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit"  (Matthew 28:19). Jesus offers us baptism as the way to enter into communion with God, Father, Son, and Spirit, and to live our lives as God's beloved children.  Through baptism we say no to the world.  We declare that we no longer want to remain children of the darkness but want to become children of the light, God's children.   We do not want to escape the world, but we want to live in it without belonging to it.  That is what baptism enables us to do. For further reflection... "Now why do you delay?  Get up and be baptized, and wash away your sins, calling on his name." - Acts 22: 16 (NIV) Comment on this Daily Meditation. Save the date! For those of you in the Toronto area, keep October 13 free! Click here. The First Annual Henri Nouwen Lecture featuring Jim Wallis happens November 14, 2015. For more information, click here.   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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