Daily Meditation: Drinking the Cup

Sunday May 12, 2013    Drinking the Cup   After firmly holding the cups of our lives and lifting them up as signs of hope for others, we have to drink them. Drinking our cups means fully appropriating and interiorizing what each of us has acknowledged as our life, with all its unique sorrows and joys.   How do we drink our cups?  We drink them as we listen in silence to the truth of our lives, as we speak in trust with friends about ways we want to grow, and as we act in deeds of service.  Drinking our cups is following freely and courageously God's call and staying faithfully on the path that is ours.  Thus our life cups become the cups of salvation.  When we have emptied them to the bottom, God will fill them with "water" for eternal life.     Comment on this Daily Meditation.   Visit our website for inspiration, resources, news, events, community. New event posting: SAT Summer Sabbatical, June 2013. Click here for details. 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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