Wednesday, November 22, 2023

Nouwen Meditation: Fools for Christ

DAILY MEDITATION | NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Fools for Christ

Sometimes we have to dare to be fools for Christ. That means that sometimes we have to be willing to give food to people who don’t really need or deserve it. And sometimes we have to be willing to work with some people who might even exploit us. Maybe this is as close as we can come to an experience of self-empyting. It is the experience of being useless in the presence of the Lord.



Understand me well, I am not trying to praise impracticality, nor am I trying to suggest that you should not stop doing the things you are doing when they prove to be counterproductive, but I am saying if you come in touch with the experience of being used or the experience of being useless, you might in fact be close to a true Christian experience, or closer than you sought.


Henri J. M. Nouwen
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"For it is not the one who commends himself [herself] who is approved, but the one whom the Lord commends."


2 CORINTHIANS 10:18 (NIV)

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Text excerpts taken from "You are the Beloved"

by Henri J.M. Nouwen

© 2017 by The Henri Nouwen Legacy Trust.

Published by Convergent Books.

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Scripture reading contributed by L. Yeskoo.


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