If you’re a professional or at-home caregiver, you likely value and appreciate Susan Martins Miller’s wonderful Henri Nouwen-inspired devotional Hope for Caregivers. Ms. Martins Miller joins us on Henri Nouwen, Now & Then to talk about the wisdom, grace, and encouragement that Nouwen offers caregivers.
I have been meditating on the story of the prodigal son. It is a story about returning. I realize the importance of returning over and over again. My life drifts away from God. I have to return. My heart moves away from my first love. I have to return. My mind wanders to strange images. I have to return. Returning is a lifelong struggle. . . . I am moved by the fact that the father didn’t require any higher motivation. His love was so total and unconditional that he simply welcomed his son home.
"Come, let us return to the Lord... Let us acknowledge the Lord; let us press on to acknowledge him. As surely as the sun rises, he will appear; he will come to us like winter rains, like the spring rains that water the earth."
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