Tuesday, October 12, 2021

Nouwen Meditation: Deciding to be Grateful

Now & Then Podcast

This week’s episode of Now & Then features a lecture from Henri Nouwen recorded in 1985. It's a particularly meaningful message for anyone who wrestles with fears and insecurities as Henri encourages us to move from the House of Fear to the House of Love.

DAILY MEDITATION | OCTOBER 12, 2021
Deciding to be Grateful
Gratitude is the most fruitful way of deepening your consciousness that you are not an “accident,” but a divine choice. It is important to realize how often we have had chances to be grateful and have not used them. When someone is kind to us, when an event turns out well, when a problem is solved, a relationship restored, a wound healed, there are very concrete reasons to offer thanks: be it with words, with flowers, with a letter, a card, a phone call, or just a gesture of affection. . . . Every time we decide to be grateful it will be easier to see new things to be grateful for. Gratitude begets gratitude, just as love begets love.
The women said to Naomi, "Praise be to the Lord, who this day has not left you without a kinsman-redeemer! He will renew your life and sustain you in your old age. For your daughter-in-law, who loves you and who is better to you than seven sons, has given him birth."

RUTH 4:14a, 15 (NIV)
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