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Book: Bread for the Journey: A Daybook of Wisdom and Faith
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  1. Henri J.M. Nouwen _ Bread for the Journey: A

    We have very little control over what happens in our lives, but we have a lot of control over how we integrate and remember what happens.
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  2. Henri J.M. Nouwen _ Bread for the Journey: A

    Saints, People Like Us Through baptism we become part of a family much larger than our biological family. It is a family of people "set apart" by God to be light in the darkness. These set-apart people are called saints. Although we tend to think about saints as holy and pious, and picture them with halos above their heads and ecstatic gazes, true saints are much more accessible. They are men and women like us, who live ordinary lives and struggle with ordinary problems. What makes them saints is their clear and unwavering focus on God and God's people. Some of their lives may look quite different, but most of their lives are remarkably similar to our own. The saints are our brothers and sisters, calling us to become like them.
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  3. Henri J.M. Nouwen _ Bread for the Journey: A

    Often we are preoccupied with the question "How can we be witnesses in the Name of Jesus? What are we supposed to say or do to make people accept the love that God offers them?" These questions are expressions more of our fear than of our love. Jesus shows us the way of being witnesses. He was so full of God's love, so connected with God's will, so burning with zeal for God's Kingdom, that he couldn't do other than witness. Wherever he went and whomever he met, a power went out from him that healed everyone who touched him {see Luke 6:19}. If we want to be witnesses like Jesus, our only concern should be to be as alive with the love of God as Jesus was.
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  4. Henri J.M. Nouwen _ Bread for the Journey: A

    It is important to think about the Church not as "over there" but as a community of struggling, weak people of whom we are part and in whom we meet our Lord and Redeemer.
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    What is our task in this world as children of God and brothers and sisters of Jesus? Our task is reconciliation. Wherever we go we see divisions among people-in families, communities, cities, countries, and continents. All these divisions are tragic reflections of our separation from God. The truth that all people belong together as members of one family under God is seldom visible. Our sacred task is to reveal that truth in the reality of everyday life. Why is that our task? Because God sent Jesus to reconcile us with God and to give us the task of reconciling people with one another. As people reconciled with God through Jesus we have been given the ministry of reconciliation {see 2 Corinthians 5:18}. So whatever we do the main question is, "Does it lead to reconciliation among people?
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  6. Henri J.M. Nouwen _ Bread for the Journey: A

    A large part of the father's life had been spent waiting. He could not force his younger son to come home or his older son to let go of his resentments. Only they themselves could take the initiative to return.
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  7. Henri J.M. Nouwen _ Bread for the Journey: A

    As long as we keep dividing our lives between events and people we would like to remember and those we would rather forget, we cannot claim the fullness of our beings as a gift of God to be grateful for.
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  8. Henri J.M. Nouwen _ Bread for the Journey: A

    Let's dare to enter into an intimate relationship with God without fear, trusting that we will receive love and always more love.
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  9. Henri J.M. Nouwen _ Bread for the Journey: A

    Have courage" therefore means "Let your center speak.
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  10. Henri J.M. Nouwen _ Bread for the Journey: A

    Jesus, the Blessed Child of God, is merciful. Showing mercy is different from having pity. Pity connotes distance, even looking down upon. When a beggar asks for money and you give him something out of pity, you are not showing mercy. Mercy comes from a compassionate heart; it comes from a desire to be an equal. Jesus didn't want to look down on us. He wanted to become one of us and feel deeply with us.When Jesus called the only son of the widow of Nain to life, he did so because he felt the deep sorrow of the grieving mother in his own heart {see Luke 7:11-17}. Let us look at Jesus when we want to know how to show mercy to our brothers and sisters.
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  11. Henri J.M. Nouwen _ Bread for the Journey: A

    We are called to witness, always with our lives and sometimes with our words, to the great things God has done for us.
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  12. Henri J.M. Nouwen _ Bread for the Journey: A

    Prayer, which is breathing with the Spirit of Jesus, leads us to this immense knowledge.
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