Tuesday, May 31, 2022

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Nouwen Meditation: A Prayer

Now & Then Podcast
In this week's episode of Henri Nouwen, Now & Then, New York Times best-selling author Brian D. McLaren grapples with the issues that have prompted the doubters, the disappointed, and the disillusioned to ask Do I Stay Christian?

DAILY MEDITATION | MAY 31, 2022
A Prayer
Dear God,

Speak gently in my silence.
When the loud outer noises of my surroundings
and the loud inner noises of my fears
keep pulling me away from you,
help me to trust that you are still there
even when I am unable to hear you.
Give me ears to listen to your small, soft voice saying:
“Come to me, you who are overburdened, and I will give you rest . . .
for I am gentle and humble of heart.” Let that loving voice be my guide.

Amen.
"For he did not despise the affliction of the afflicted; he did not hide his face from me, but heard when I cried to him."

PSALM 22:24 (NRSV)
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Monday, May 30, 2022

Nouwen Meditation: Hear the Voice that Calls You the Beloved

Now & Then Podcast
In this week's episode of Henri Nouwen, Now & Then, New York Times best-selling author Brian D. McLaren grapples with the issues that have prompted the doubters, the disappointed, and the disillusioned to ask Do I Stay Christian?

DAILY MEDITATION | MAY 30, 2022
Hear the Voice that Calls You the Beloved
Solitude is listening to the voice that calls you the Beloved. It is being alone with the One who says, “You are my Beloved, I want to be with you. Don’t go running around, don’t start to prove to everybody that you’re beloved. You are already beloved.” That is what God says to us. Solitude is the place where we go in order to hear the truth about ourselves. It asks us to let go of the other ways of proving, which are a lot more satisfying. The voice that calls us the beloved is not the voice that satisfies the senses. That’s what the whole mystical life is about; it is beyond feelings and beyond thoughts.
"Be at rest once more, O my soul, for the Lord has been good to you."

PSALM 116:7 (NIV)
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