Daily Meditation: Empowered to Receive Love

Wednesday June 12, 2013    Empowered to Receive Love The Spirit reveals to us not only that God is "Abba, Father" but also that we belong to God as his beloved children.  The Spirit thus restores in us the relationship from which all other relationships derive their meaning.   Abba is a very intimate word.  The best translation for it is:  "Daddy."  The word Abba expresses trust, safety, confidence, belonging, and most of all intimacy.  It does not have the connotation of authority, power, and control, that the word Father often evokes.  On the contrary, Abba implies an embracing and nurturing love.  This love includes and infinitely transcends all the love that comes to us from our fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, spouses, and lovers.  It is the gift of the Spirit.     Comment on this Daily Meditation.   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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