Daily Meditation: Creating a Home Together

Wednesday March 5, 2014 Creating a Home Together Many human relationships are like the interlocking fingers of two hands.  Our loneliness makes us cling to each other, and this mutual clinging makes us suffer immensely because it does not take our loneliness away.  But the harder we try, the more desperate we become.  Many of these "interlocking" relationships fall apart because they become suffocating and oppressive.   Human relationships are meant to be like two hands folded together.  They can move away from each other while still touching with the fingertips.  They can create space between themselves, a little tent, a home, a safe place to be.  True relationships among people point to God.  They are like prayers in the world.  Sometimes the hands that pray are fully touching, sometimes there is distance between them.  They always move to and from each other, but they never lose touch. They keep praying to the One who brought them together.   Lenten book discussion starts today, March 5th. Please click here for information. "The Spirit and Practice of Excellence" call-in seminar is happening on March 20th. For more information and to register, please click here. 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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