Tuesday, December 26, 2023

Nouwen Meditation: Become Like a Child

DAILY MEDITATION | DECEMBER 26, 2023

Become Like a Child

The great temptation is to use our obvious failures and disappointments in our lives to convince ourselves that we are really not worth being loved. Because what do we have to show for ourselves?


But for a person of faith the opposite is true. The many failures may open that place in us where we have nothing to brag about but everything to be loved for. It is becoming a child again, a child who is loved simply for being, simply for smiling, simply for reaching out.



This is the way to spiritual maturity: to receive love as a pure, free gift.

Henri J. M. Nouwen
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And he said, “Truly, I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.”


MATTHEW 18:3 (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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