Thursday, December 16, 2021

Nouwen Meditation: Free to Love

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Is the anti-nuclear movement still alive and well today? In this week's episode of Now & ThenArt Laffin, author, activist and good friend of Henri Nouwen, shares about Henri’s influence on his life and work, and what it means to live Jesus' gospel of nonviolence. 

DAILY MEDITATION | DECEMBER 16, 2021
Free to Love
A lot of giving and receiving has a violent quality, because the givers and receivers act more out of need than out of trust. What looks like generosity is actually manipulation, and what looks like love is really a cry for affection or support. When you know yourself as fully loved, you will be able to give according to the other’s capacity to receive, and you will be able to receive according to the other’s capacity to give. You will be grateful for what is given to you without clinging to it, and joyful for what you can give without bragging about it. You will be a free person, free to love.
You, my brothers [and sisters], were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the sinful nature; rather, serve one another in love.

Galatians 5:13 (NIV)
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