Daily Meditation: Choosing Love

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Thursday June 14, 2012        Choosing Love  How can someone ever trust in the existence of an unconditional divine love when most, if not all, of what he or she has experienced is the opposite of love - fear, hatred, violence, and abuse?  They are not condemned to be victims!  There remains within them, hidden as it may seem, the possibility to choose love.  Many people who have suffered the most horrendous rejections and been subject to the most cruel torture are able to choose love.  By choosing love they become witnesses not only to enormous human resiliency but also to the divine love that transcends all human loves.   Those who choose, even on a small scale, to love in the midst of hatred and fear are the people who offer true hope to our world.   Comment on this Daily Meditation. Please join us for a discussion on The Wounded Healer.   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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