Ubi Caritas: Nouwen Meditation: Presence and Absence

Saturday, September 23, 2023

Nouwen Meditation: Presence and Absence

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This week on Henri Nouwen, Now & Then, guest Adam Russell Taylor, president of Sojourners and author of A More Perfect Union: A New Vision for Building the Beloved Community, advocates for a politics that prioritizes truth, justice and the common good. Challenging the deep divisions plaguing church and society, Adam shares a transformational vision of hope and healing.

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DAILY MEDITATION | SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

Presence and Absence

One of the mysteries of life is that memory can often bring us closer to each other than can physical presence. Physical presence not only invites but also blocks communication. In our pre-resurrection state our bodies hide as much as they reveal. Indeed, many of our disappointments and frustrations in life are related to the fact that seeing and touching each other does not always create the closeness we seek. The more experience in living we have, the more we sense that closeness grows in the continuous interplay between presence and absence.

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"So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal."

2 CORINTHIANS 4:18 (NIV)

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