Ubi Caritas: Nouwen Meditation: Accept Your Identity as a Child of God

Wednesday, October 4, 2023

Nouwen Meditation: Accept Your Identity as a Child of God

Now & Then Podcast

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 | OCTOBER 4, 2023

Accept Your Identity as a Child of God

Your true identity is as a child of God. This is the identity you have to accept. Once you have claimed it and settled in it, you can live in a world that gives you much joy as well as pain. You can receive the praise as well as the blame that comes to you as an opportunity for strengthening your basic identity, because the identity that makes you free is anchored beyond all human praise and blame. You belong to God, and it is as a child of God that you are sent into the world.

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You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.

1 JOHN 4:4 (NIV)

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