Reflection of the Week - 16th April 2024
Don’t you wonder sometimes how our covenant Lord who is God – Creator, Master, and Teacher, can and does create from nothing and does not need anything or anyone but is helplessly in love with you?
Reflection of the Week - 4th October 2022
By Henry Nouwen
Posted in Faith
While Jesus predicts that people will die of fear ‘as they await what menaces the world’ (Luke 21:26), he says to his followers: ‘Stay awake, praying at all times for the strength to survive all that is going to happen, and to stand with confidence before the Son of Man’ (Luke 21:36).
After I gazed for a long time at [Andrei] Rublev’s Trinity [icon] these words spoke to me with new power, ‘Praying at all times’ has come to mean ‘dwelling in the house of God all the days of our lives.’
‘Surviving all that is going to happen’ now tells me that I no longer need to be victim of the fear, hatred, and violence that rule the world. ‘Standing with confidence before the Son of Man’ no longer just refers to the end of time, but opens for me the possibility of living confidently, that is, with trust (the literal meaning of confide) in the midst of hostility and violence.
Source: Henry Nouwen website, Meditation Landing - Henri Nouwen
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