Daily Meditation: Living Faithfully in an Ambiguous World

Living Faithfully in an Ambiguous World Our hearts and minds desire clarity.  We like to have a clear picture of a situation, a clear view of how things fit together, and clear insight into our own and the world's problems.   But just as in nature colors and shapes mingle without clear-cut distinctions, human life doesn't offer the clarity we are looking for.  The borders between love and hate, evil and good, beauty and ugliness, heroism and cowardice, care and neglect, guilt and blamelessness are mostly vague, ambiguous, and hard to discern. It is not easy to live faithfully in a world full of ambiguities.  We have to learn to make wise choices without needing to be entirely sure.   For further reflection ... "By faith Moses' parents hid him for three months after he was born, because they saw he was no ordinary child, and they were not afraid of the king's edict." - Hebrews 11: 23  (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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