Thursday, June 23, 2022

Nouwen Meditation: The Friend Who Cares

Now & Then Podcast
REPLAY OF A POPULAR PODCAST:  Adam Russell Taylor, President of Sojourners and author of "A More Perfect Union," offers a transformational and unifying vision for America in this deeply challenging, honest, and hope-filled episode of Henri Nouwen, Now & Then.

DAILY MEDITATION | JUNE 23, 2022
The Friend Who Cares
When we honestly ask ourselves which persons in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving much advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not-knowing, not-curing, not-healing, and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is the friend who cares.
"No one has greater love than this, to lay down one's life for one's friends."

JOHN 15:13 (NRSV)
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