Sunday, January 29, 2023

Nouwen Meditation: Become the Beloved

Now & Then Podcast
In this week's episode of Henri Nouwen Now & Then, we meet distinguished scholar and award-winning author Dr. Michael W. Higgins.  Co-author of Impressively Free: Henri Nouwen as a Model for a Reformed Priesthood, Michael shares incredible insight into the significance of Nouwen’s life and writing, and offers a savvy perspective on the state of the Catholic Church today.

DAILY MEDITATION | JANUARY 29, 2023
Become the Beloved
As long as “being the Beloved” is little more than a beautiful thought or a lofty idea that hangs above my life to keep me from becoming depressed, nothing really changes. What is required is to become the Beloved in the commonplaces of my daily existence, and bit by bit to close the gap that exists between what I know myself to be and the countless realities of everyday life. Becoming the Beloved is pulling the truth revealed to me from above down into the ordinariness of what I am thinking of, talking about, and doing from hour to hour.
"And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them."

1 JOHN 4:16 (NIV)
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