Wednesday, December 28, 2022

Nouwen Meditation: Our Greatest Gift


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DAILY MEDITATION | DECEMBER 28, 2022
Our Greatest Gift
As I grow older, I discover more and more that the greatest gift I have to offer is my own joy of living, my own inner peace, my own silence and solitude, my own sense of well-being. When I ask myself, “Who helps me the most?” I must answer, “The one who is willing to share his or her life with me.”
Henri J. M. Nouwen
A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.

LUKE 6:38 (NIV)
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Tuesday, December 27, 2022

Nouwen Meditation: Blessed to be a Blessing


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DAILY MEDITATION | DECEMBER 27, 2022
Blessed to be a Blessing
It is remarkable how easy it is to bless others, to speak good things to and about them, to call forth their beauty and truth, when you yourself are in touch with your own blessedness. The blessed one always blesses. And people want to be blessed! This is so apparent wherever you go. No one is brought to life through curses, gossip, accusations, or blaming. There is so much taking place around us all the time. And it calls forth only darkness, destruction, and death. As the “blessed ones,” we can walk through this world and offer blessings. It doesn’t require much effort. It flows naturally from our hearts. When we hear within ourselves the voice calling us by name and blessing us, the darkness no longer distracts us. The voice that calls us the Beloved will give us words to bless others and reveal to them that they are no less blessed than we.
Henri J. M. Nouwen
A person’s words can be life-giving water; words of true wisdom are as refreshing as a bubbling brook. - Proverbs 18: 4 (NLT)

PROVERBS 18:4 (NLT)
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Monday, December 26, 2022

Nouwen Meditation: Become Like a Child

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DAILY MEDITATION | DECEMBER 26, 2022
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
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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