Friday, December 22, 2023

Nouwen Meditation: Trust Your Vocation

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In 1995, Brian Stiller hosted the weekly television series Cross Currents, and recorded an exclusive interview with Henri Nouwen at his L’Arche Daybreak home. The uncut conversation in video form has never been made available  until now! We are thrilled to feature part one of this intimate and inspiring interview as our Christmas gift to you!


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DAILY MEDITATION | DECEMBER 22, 2023

Trust Your Vocation

You have to start trusting your unique vocation and allow it to grow deeper and stronger in you so it can blossom in your community. . . . Look at Rembrandt and van Gogh. They trusted their vocations and did not allow anyone to lead them astray. With true Dutch stubbornness, they followed their vocations from the moment they recognized them. They didn’t bend over backward to please their friends or enemies. Both ended their lives in poverty, but both left humanity with gifts that could heal the minds and hearts of many generations of people. Think of these two men and trust that you, too, have a unique vocation that is worth claiming and living out faithfully.

Henri J. M. Nouwen
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Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters, since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving.


COLOSSIANS 3:23-24 (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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