Daily Meditation: Flesh Become Word

Tuesday June 24, 2014 Flesh Become Word The word must become flesh, but the flesh also must become word.  It is not enough for us, as human beings, just to live.  We also must give words to what we are living.  If we do not speak what we are living, our lives lose their vitality and creativity.   When we see a beautiful view, we search for words to express what we are seeing.  When we meet a caring person, we want to speak about that meeting.  When we are sorrowful or in great pain, we need to talk about it.  When we are surprised by joy, we want to announce it! Through the word, we appropriate and internalize what we are living.  The word makes our experience truly human.   Comment on this Daily Meditation. Read and reflect on "Can You Drink the Cup?"  with us this summer.  Discussion starts June 29th. Click here for details.   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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