Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Daily Meditation: Growing Into Our True Freedom

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Tuesday April 17, 2012 

 

Growing Into Our True Freedom 

 

True freedom is the freedom of the children of God.  To reach that freedom requires a lifelong discipline since so much in our world militates against it.  The political, economic, social, and even religious powers surrounding us all want to keep us in bondage so that we will obey their commands and be dependent on their rewards. 


But the spiritual truth that leads to freedom is the truth that we belong not to the world but to God, whose beloved children we are.  By living lives in which we keep returning to that truth in word and deed, we will gradually grow into our true freedom.

- Henri J. M. Nouwen 
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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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