Tuesday, August 8, 2023

Nouwen Meditation: Witnesses to the Light

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.
DAILY MEDITATION | AUGUST 8, 2023
Witnesses to the Light
Solitude molds self-righteous people into gentle, caring, forgiving persons who are so deeply convinced of their own great sinfulness and so fully aware of God’s even greater mercy that their life itself becomes ministry. In such a ministry there is hardly any difference left between doing and being. When we are filled with God’s merciful presence, we can do nothing other than minister because our whole being witnesses to the light that has come into the darkness.
"I am the vine, you are the branches. Those who abide in me and I in them bear much fruit, because apart from me you can do nothing."

JOHN 15:5 (NRSV)
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