Monday, November 7, 2022

Nouwen Meditation: The Fellowship of the Weak

Now & Then Podcast
In this episode of Henri Nouwen, Now & Then, pastor and award-winning author Rich Villodas, talks about how goodness, kindness, and beauty are not only admirable qualities, but essential attributes for everyone worn weary by the stresses of our fractured world.

DAILY MEDITATION | NOVEMBER 7, 2022
The Fellowship of the Weak
Fear, shame, and guilt often make us stay in our isolation and prevent us from realizing that our handicap, whatever it is, can always become the way to an intimate and healing fellowship in which we come to know one another as humans. After all, everyone shares the handicap of mortality. Our individual, physical, emotional, and spiritual failures are but symptoms of this disease. Only when we use these symptoms of mortality to form a fellowship of the weak can hope emerge. It is in the confession of our brokenness that the real strength of new and everlasting life can be affirmed and made visible.
But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me.

2 CORINTHIANS 12:9 (NIV)
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