Monday, August 23, 2021

Nouwen Meditation: Offer God Your Imperfections

As we continue to commemorate and celebrate the life of Henri Nouwen throughout 2021, we are pleased to announce an online book discussion beginning on Wednesday, September 1st. Join us as we read and discuss Nouwen’s Beyond the Mirror: Reflections on Death and Life.

DAILY MEDITATION | AUGUST 23, 2021
Offer God Your Imperfections
It is through our broken, vulnerable, mortal ways of being that the healing power of the eternal God becomes visible to us.

We are called each day to present to the Lord the whole of our lives—our joys as well as sorrows, our successes as well as failures, our hopes as well as fears. We are called to do so with our limited means, our stuttering words and halting expressions. In this way we will come to know in mind and heart the unceasing prayer of God’s Spirit in us. Our many prayers are in fact confessions of our inability to pray. But they are confessions that enable us to perceive the merciful presence of God.
Trust in him at all times... pour out your hearts to him, for God is our refuge."

PSALM 62:8 (NIV)
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