Ubi Caritas: Nouwen Meditation: Spiritual Reading

Sunday, January 21, 2024

Nouwen Meditation: Spiritual Reading

Now & Then Podcast

Distinguished Professor of Law and Religion John Inazu joins us on Henri Nouwen, Now & Then to discuss his latest book Learning to Disagree: The Surprising Path to Navigating Differences with Empathy and Respect. Encouraging us towards a posture of hope, this conversation is a timely contribution to the divided times we are living in.

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DAILY MEDITATION | JANUARY 21, 2024

Spiritual Reading

Spiritual reading is not only reading about spiritual people or spiritual things. It is also reading spiritually, that is, in a spiritual way! Reading in a spiritual way is reading with a desire to let God come closer to us.

The purpose of spiritual reading . . . is not to master knowledge or information but to let God’s Spirit master us. Strange as it may sound, spiritual reading means to let ourselves be read by God!

Spiritual reading is reading with an inner attentiveness to the movement of God’s Spirit in our outer and inner lives. With that attentiveness, we will allow God to read us and to explain to us what we are truly about.

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This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, expressing spiritual truths in spiritual words.

1 CORINTHIANS 2:13 (NIV)

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