Ubi Caritas: Nouwen Meditation: Our True Home

Monday, October 2, 2023

Nouwen Meditation: Our True Home

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 2, 2023

Our True Home

How can we live in the midst of a world marked by fear, hatred, and violence, and not be destroyed by it? When Jesus prays to his Father for his disciples he responds to this question by saying, “I am not asking you to remove them from the world but to protect them from the evil one. They do not belong to the world any more than I belong to the world” (John 17:15–16).

To live in the world without belonging to the world summarizes the essence of the spiritual life. The spiritual life keeps us aware that our true house is not the house of fear, in which the powers of hatred and violence rule, but the house of love, where God resides.

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For this world is not our permanent home; we are looking forward to a home yet to come.

HEBREWS 13:14 (NLT)

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