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Nouwen Meditation: Freedom Is Our Goal

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DAILY MEDITATION | JANUARY 16, 2024

Freedom Is Our Goal

While fear and anger are the most natural and most obvious reactions to a state of emergency, they have to be unmasked as expressions of our false selves. When we are trembling with fear or seething with anger, we have sold ourselves to the world or to a false god. Fear and anger take our freedom away and make us victims of the strong seductions of our world. Fear, as well as anger, when we look at them in solitude and quiet, reveal to us how deeply our sense of worth is dependent either on our success in the world or on the opinions of others. We suddenly realize that we have become what we do or what others think of us.

Henri J. M. Nouwen
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Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.


2 CORINTHIANS 3:17 (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.

Photo from pixabay.com.

Scripture reading contributed by L. Yeskoo.


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