Daily Meditation: Opportunities to Witness

Opportunities to Witness - from Henri Nouwen's Bread for the Journey Jesus teaches us how to live in the present time.  He identifies our present time as the end-time, the time that offers us countless opportunities to testify for Jesus and his Kingdom.   The many disasters in our world, and all the tragedies that happen to people each day, can easily lead us to despair and convince us that we are the sad victims of circumstances.  But Jesus looks at these events in a radically different way.   He calls them opportunities to witness!   Jesus reminds us that we do not belong to this world.  We have been sent into the world to be living witnesses of God's unconditional love, calling all people to look beyond the passing structures of our temporary existence to the eternal life promised to us. For further reflection... "For we cannot help speaking about what we have seen and heard." - Acts 4:20 (NIV) Comment on this Daily Meditation. Save the date! For those of you in the Toronto area, keep October 13 free! Click here. The First Annual Henri Nouwen Lecture featuring Jim Wallis happens November 14, 2015. For more information, click here.   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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