Daily Meditation: Jesus Comes to Us in the Poor

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Saturday August 4, 2012      Jesus Comes to Us in the Poor   What finally counts is not whether we know Jesus and his words but whether we live our lives in the Spirit of Jesus.  The Spirit of Jesus is the Spirit of Love.  Jesus himself makes this clear when he speaks about the last judgment.  There people will ask:  "Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you drink?" and Jesus will answer:  "In so far as you did this to one of the least ... of mine, you did it to me"  (Matthew 25:37, 40).   This is our great challenge and consolation.  Jesus comes to us in the poor, the sick, the dying, the prisoners, the lonely, the disabled, the rejected.  There we meet him, and there the door to God's house is opened for us.     Comment on this Daily Meditation.   Visit our website for inspiration, resources, news, events, community. Text excerpts taken from Bread for the Journey, by Henri J.M. Nouwen, ©1997 HarperSanFrancisco. All Scripture from The Jerusalem Bible ©1966, 1967, and 1968 Darton, Longman & Todd and Doubleday & Co. Inc. Photo by V. Dobson.

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If We Could Do Nothing

If We Could Do Nothing Pablo Neruda If we were not so single-minded about keeping our lives moving, and for once could do nothing, perhaps a huge silence might interrupt this sadness of never understanding ourselves and of threatening ourselves with death. Source: Keeping Still Add your thoughts at inward/outward This message is a daily service of inward/outward. Was this message forwarded to you? Click here to sign up. No longer interested in receiving these readings? Click here to unsubscribe. Having trouble unsubscribing? Email Church of the Saviour Office: churchofthesaviour.office@gmail.com

Daily Meditation: The Door Open to Anyone

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Friday August 3, 2012     The Door Open to Anyone   Jesus is the door to a life in and with God. "I am the gate," he says (John 10:9).  "I am the Way;  I am Truth and Life.   No one can come to the Father except through me" (John 14:6).  Still, many people never have heard or will hear of Jesus.  They are born, live their lives, and die without having been exposed to Jesus and his words.  Are they lost?  Is there no place in the Father's house for them?   Jesus opened the door to God's house for all people, also for those who never knew or will know that it was Jesus who opened it.  The Spirit that Jesus sent "blows where it pleases" (John 3:8), and it can lead anyone through the door to God's house.     Comment on this Daily Meditation.   Visit our website for inspiration, resources, news, events, community. Text excerpts taken from Bread for the Journey, by Henri J.M. Nouwen, ©1997 HarperSanFrancisco. All Scripture from The Jerusalem Bible ©1966, 1967, and 1968 Darton, Longman & Todd and Doubleday & Co. Inc. Photo by V. Dobson.

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The Eternal Self

The Eternal Self N. Gordon Cosby Is there a real eternal self that we can claim now and begin to deepen and expand into forever? The determining question is whether or not this unique, deeper person exists. Is it real, although unawakened? Is there another culture that is uniquely suited for each of us and that calls forth our inner truth, who we really are? We can keep living from the shallow, surface self or we can claim the real, the deep, the inner self where the Spirit of God already dwells. Only then do we become free. Only then will we experience the freedom that Meister Eckhart says comes from "needing to know nothing, will nothing and have nothing." This inner place of freedom is the culture that is our true home. Source: sermon Add your thoughts at inward/outward This message is a daily service of inward/outward. Was this message forwarded to you? Click here to sign up. No longer interested in receiving these readings? Click here to unsubscribe. Having trouble unsubscribing? Email Church of the Saviour Office: churchofthesaviour.office@gmail.com

Daily Meditation: Jesus Takes Away Fatality

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Thursday August 2, 2012    Jesus Takes Away Fatality   The great mystery of the incarnation is that God became human in Jesus so that all human flesh could be clothed with divine life.  Our lives are fragile and destined to death.  But since God, through Jesus, shared in our fragile and mortal lives, death no longer has the final word.  Life has become victorious.  Paul writes:  "And after this perishable nature has put on imperishability and this mortal nature has put on immortality, then will the words of scripture come true:  "Death is swallowed up in victory.  Death, where is your victory?  Death, where is your sting?"  (1 Corinthians 15:54).   Jesus has taken away the fatality of our existence and given our lives eternal value.     Comment on this Daily Meditation.   Visit our website for inspiration, resources, news, events, community. Text excerpts taken from Bread for the Journey, by Henri J.M. Nouwen, ©1997 HarperSanFrancisco. All Scripture from The Jerusalem Bible ©1966, 1967, and 1968 Darton, Longman & Todd and Doubleday & Co. Inc. Photo by V. Dobson.

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Telling or Listening

Telling or Listening Herbert Alphonso, SJ Before I can tell my life what I want to do with it, I must listen to my life telling me who I am. I must listen for the truths and values at the heart of my own identity, not the standards by which I must live--but the standards by which I cannot help but live if I am living my own life. Source: Discovering Your Personal Vocation Add your thoughts at inward/outward This message is a daily service of inward/outward. Was this message forwarded to you? Click here to sign up. No longer interested in receiving these readings? Click here to unsubscribe. Having trouble unsubscribing? Email Church of the Saviour Office: churchofthesaviour.office@gmail.com

Daily Meditation: All People Lifted Up with Jesus

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Wednesday August 1, 2012         All People Lifted Up with Jesus   The death and resurrection of Jesus are God's way to open for all people the door to eternal life.  Jesus said:  "When I am lifted up from the earth, I shall draw all people to myself" (John 12:32). Indeed, all people, from all times and places, are lifted up with Jesus on the cross and into the new life of the resurrection.  Thus, Jesus' death is a death for all humanity, and Jesus' resurrection is a resurrection for all humanity.   Not one person from the past, present, or future is excluded from the great passage of Jesus from slavery to freedom, from the land of captivity to the promised land, from death to eternal life.     Comment on this Daily Meditation.   Visit our website for inspiration, resources, news, events, community. Text excerpts taken from Bread for the Journey, by Henri J.M. Nouwen, ©1997 HarperSanFrancisco. All Scripture from The Jerusalem Bible ©1966, 1967, and 1968 Darton, Longman & Todd and Doubleday & Co. Inc. Photo by V. Dobson.

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