Daily Meditation: Travelling With the Eyes of God

Travelling With the Eyes of God Travelling - seeing new sights, hearing new music, and meeting new people - is exciting and exhilarating.  But when we have no home to return to where someone will ask us, "How was your trip?" we might be less eager to go.  Travelling is joyful when we travel with the eyes and ears of those who love us, who want to see our slides and hear our stories. This is what life is about.  It is being sent on a trip by a loving God, who is waiting at home for our return and is eager to watch the slides we took and hear about the friends we made.   When we travel with the eyes and ears of the God who sent us, we will see wonderful sights, hear wonderful sounds, meet wonderful people ... and be happy to return home.   For further reflection ... "No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love him" --- but God has revealed it to us by his Spirit.  The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God.  For who among [humans] knows the thoughts of a [human] except [their] spirit within [them]?  In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.  We have not received the spirit of the world but the Spirit who is from God, that we may understand what God has freely given us. - I Corinthians 2: 9 - 12 (NIV) Comment on this Daily Meditation. Save the date! "Caregiving from the Heart" webinar April 23rd. Click here for details. Join us this Lent as we reflect on Nouwen's "The Return of the Prodigal Son". Click here for more information.   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. Scripture chosen by L. Yeskoo.

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Daily Meditation: Smiles Breaking Through Tears

Smiles Breaking Through Tears Dying is a gradual diminishing and final vanishing over the horizon of life.  When we watch a sailboat leaving port and moving toward the horizon, it becomes smaller and smaller until we can no longer see it.   But we must trust that someone is standing on a faraway shore seeing that same sailboat become larger and larger until it reaches its new harbor.   Death is a painful loss. When we return to our homes after a burial, our hearts are in grief.  But when we think about the One standing at the other shore eagerly waiting to welcome our beloved friend into a new home, a smile can break through our tears.   For further reflection ... "The Lord is close to the broken-hearted, and saves those who are crushed in spirit." - Psalm 34:18 (NIV) Comment on this Daily Meditation. Save the date! "Caregiving from the Heart" webinar April 23rd. Click here for details. Join us this Lent as we reflect on Nouwen's "The Return of the Prodigal Son". Click here for more information.   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. Scripture chosen by L. Yeskoo.

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Reflection for Palm Sunday

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O give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; his steadfast love endures forever!  Psalm 118:1

The Path of Waiting   An excerpt from Henri Nouwen's Finding My Way Home   Passion is a kind of waiting - waiting for what other people are going to do. Jesus went to Jerusalem to announce the good news to the people of that city. And Jesus knew that he was going to put a choice before them: Will you be my disciple, or will you be my executioner? There is no middle ground here. Jesus went to Jerusalem to put people in a situation where they had to say "Yes" or "No". That is the great drama of Jesus' passion: he had to wait for their response. What would they do? Betray him or follow him?   In a way, his agony is not simply the agony of approaching death. It is also the agony of being out of control and of having to wait. It is the agony of a God who depends on us to decide how to live out the divine presence among us. It is the agony of the God who, in a very mysterious way, allows us to decide how God will be God. Here we glimpse the mystery of God's incarnation. God became human not only to act among us but also to be the recipient of our responses.   . . . And that is the mystery of Jesus' love. Jesus in his passion is the one who waits for our response. Precisely in that waiting the intensity of his love and God's is revealed to us.         Our Lenten Book Discussion Continues!   Feel free to join us during these last days of Lent as we reflect on the final section of Henri Nouwen's The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming.  Facilitated by Brynn Lawrence and Ray Glennon. You are welcome to participate in any way that is spiritually nourishing for you! READ  *  REFLECT  *  SHARE    Excerpt from Henri Nouwen's Finding My Way Home: Pathways to Life and theSpirit.  Copyright © 2001 The Estate of Henri J.M. Nouwen. Published by The Crossroad Publishing Company. Used with kind permission of the publisher.     Scripture quotation from New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright © 1989, 1993 National Council of Churches of Christ in the United States of America; selected by M. Wright.   Photo of Henri Nouwen by Frank Hamilton. Used with kind permission. Banner image by Sharon Sheehan; used with kind permission.   Additional Lenten Reading Life of the Beloved  Walk with Jesus Finding My Way Home A Spirituality of Homecoming Home Tonight A Wondrous Love The Return of the Prodigal Son Click here for information about the availability of Nouwen's books in Canada and the UK. Please Consider A Gift  Help us preserve and extend Henri Nouwen's rich and important legacy.    Click here to donate in US dollars.  Canadian donor? Please click here. VISIT OUR WEBSITE

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