Friday, April 7, 2023

Nouwen Meditation: Claim God’s Love for You

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DAILY MEDITATION | APRIL 7, 2023
Claim God’s Love for You
For a very long time I considered low self-esteem to be some kind of virtue. I had been warned so often against pride and conceit that I came to consider it a good thing to deprecate myself. But now I realize that the real sin is to deny God’s first love for me, to ignore my original goodness. Because without claiming that first love and that original goodness for myself, I lose touch with my true self and embark on the destructive search among the wrong people and in the wrong places for what can only be found in the house of my Father.
"When he came to his senses... he got up and went to his father. But while he was a long way off, his father saw him and was filled with compassion for him."

LUKE 15:17,20 (NIV)
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