Reflection of the Week - 1st April 2025

By Henri Nouwen

Posted Apr  1, 2025 in Faith

Active Waiting

‘And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for God’s people in accordance with the will of God.’ - Romans 8: 27

The purpose of discernment is to know God’s will, that is, to find, accept, and affirm the unique way in which God’s love is manifest in our life. To know God’s will is to actively claim an intimate relationship with God, in the context of which we discover our deepest vocation and the desire to live that vocation to the fullest. It has nothing to do with passive submission to an external divine power that imposes itself on us. It has everything to do with active waiting on a God who waits for us.

Henri Nouwen, Active Waiting - Henri Nouwen

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