Daily Meditation: Choosing Love

Choosing Love - from Henri Nouwen's Bread for the Journey How can someone ever trust in the existence of an unconditional divine love when most, if not all, of what he or she has experienced is the opposite of love - fear, hatred, violence, and abuse?  They are not condemned to be victims!  There remains within them, hidden as it may seem, the possibility to choose love.  Many people who have suffered the most horrendous rejections and been subject to the most cruel torture are able to choose love.  By choosing love they become witnesses not only to enormous human resiliency but also to the divine love that transcends all human loves.   Those who choose, even on a small scale, to love in the midst of hatred and fear are the people who offer true hope to our world.   For further reflection ... "Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.  Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is -- his good, pleasing and perfect will." - Romans 12: 2 (NIV) Comment on this Daily Meditation. Summer book discussion on "Finding My Way Home" starts June 28th. Join us!   Click here to purchase audio recording of Caregiving from the Heart seminar.   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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