Nouwen Meditation: Being is More Important than Doing
A Living Gospel - Week 4
"HENRI NOUWEN: WOUNDED HEALER"
Cultivating hope, in the midst of struggle, as ones Beloved of God.
Our host, Robert Ellsberg, invites us to embrace our suffering and brokenness as a pathway to love as we consider Henri Nouwen’s vulnerable spirituality.
I suspect that we too often have lost contact with the source of our own existence and have become strangers in our own house. We tend to run around trying to solve the problems of our world while anxiously avoiding confrontation with that reality wherein our problems find their deepest roots: our own selves. In many ways we are like the busy executive who walks up to a precious flower and says: “What for God’s sake are you doing here? Can’t you get busy somehow?” and then finds the flower’s response incomprehensible: “I am sorry, but I am just here to be beautiful.”
How can we also come to this wisdom of the flower that being is more important than doing? How can we come to a creative contact with the grounding of our own life?
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