| | REPLAY OF A POPULAR PODCAST: In this very special episode of Now & Then, Kerry A. Robinson, Executive Director of the National Leadership Roundtable on Church Management and author of Imagining Abundance, gives brilliant and inspiring insight into both the world of philanthropy and fundraising.
| | DAILY MEDITATION | JUNE 29, 2022 | | You Are a Recipient of Light | It is indeed the task of everyone who cares to prevent people— young, middle-aged, and old—from clinging to false expectations and from building their lives on false suppositions. If it is true that people age the way they live, our first task is to help people discover their lifestyles in which “being” is not identified with “having,” self-esteem does not depend on success, and goodness is not the same as popularity. Care for the aging means a persistent refusal to attach any kind of ultimate significance to grades, degrees, positions, promotions, or rewards and the courageous effort to keep men and women in contact with their inner self, where they can experience their own solitude and silence as potential recipients of light. When one has not discovered and experienced the light that is love, peace, forgiveness, gentleness, kindness, and deep joy in the early years, how can one expect to recognize it in old age? As the book of Sirach says: “If you have gathered nothing in your youth, how can you find anything in your old age?” (Sirach 25:3–4). That is true not only of money and material goods, but also of peace and purity of heart. | | "You, however, know all about my teaching, my way of life, my purpose, faith, patience, love, endurance, persecutions, sufferings... for I am already being poured out like a drink offering, and the time has come for my departure. I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith."
2 TIMOTHY 3:10; 4:6,7 (NIV) | | Consider our monthly giving program to sustain the ability to extend Henri's legacy and make his work available to those who seek spiritual formation and nourishment. Click here to sign up today. | | Text excerpts taken from "You are the Beloved" by Henri J.M. Nouwen © 2017 by The Henri Nouwen Legacy Trust. Photo from shutterstock.com Scripture reading contributed by L. Yeskoo.
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