Saturday, December 31, 2022

Nouwen Meditation: Remember



We are so grateful to you for sharing in the work and vision of the Henri Nouwen Society this year. We couldn’t do what we do without you. Thank you! We wish you and yours a blessed and peace-filled 2023.
DAILY MEDITATION | DECEMBER 31, 2022
Remember
Remember you are held safe. You are loved. You are protected. You are in communion with God and with those whom God has sent you. What is of God will last. It belongs to the eternal life. Choose it, and it will be yours.
The Spirit and the bride say, “Come!” And let him who hears say, “Come!” Whoever is thirsty, let him come; and whoever wishes, let him take the free gift of the water of life."

REVELATION 22:17 (NIV)
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Friday, December 30, 2022

Nouwen Meditation: Love is Stronger than Death



There is still time to make a year-end gift to the Henri Nouwen Society. We are very grateful to you for partnering with us in our work and ministry.
DAILY MEDITATION | DECEMBER 30, 2022
Love is Stronger than Death
God is Spirit and the Source of all love. Our spiritual journey calls us to seek and find this living God of love in prayer, worship, spiritual reading, spiritual mentoring, compassionate service to the poor, and good friends. Let us claim the truth that we are loved and open our hearts to receive God’s overflowing love poured out for us. And living fully each day let us share that love in all our wonderful and difficult relationships, responsibilities, and passages.

The seeds of death are at work in us, but love is stronger than death. Your death and mine are our final passage, our exodus to the full realization of our identity as God’s beloved children and to full communion with the God of Love. Jesus walked the path ahead of us and invites us to choose the same path during our lifetime. He calls to us, “Follow me.” He assures us, “Do not be afraid.” This is our faith.
For when you did awesome things that we did not expect, you came down, and the mountains trembled before you. Since ancient times no one has heard, no ear has perceived, no eye has seen any God besides you, who acts on behalf of those who wait for him.

ISAIAH 64:3,4 (NIV)
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Thursday, December 29, 2022

Nouwen Meditation: Born to Reconcile


There is still time for you to participate in our Year-end Campaign. Gifts to the Henri Nouwen Society received between now and December 31 play an important role in our planning for 2023. Thank you for your support!
DAILY MEDITATION | DECEMBER 29, 2022
Born to Reconcile
If you dare to believe that you are beloved before you are born, you may suddenly realize that your life is very, very special. You become conscious that you were sent here just for a short time, for twenty, forty, or eighty years, to discover and believe that you are a beloved child of God. The length of time doesn’t matter. You are sent into this world to believe in yourself as God’s chosen one and then to help your brothers and sisters know that they are also Beloved Sons and Daughters of God who belong together. You’re sent into this world to be a people of reconciliation. You are sent to heal, to break down the walls between you and your neighbors, locally, nationally, and globally. Before all distinctions, the separations, and the walls built on foundations of fear, there was a unity in the mind and heart of God. Out of that unity, you are sent into this world for a little while to claim that you and every other human being belongs to the same God of Love who lives from eternity to eternity.
All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation.

2 CORINTHIANS 5:18 (NIV)
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