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  1. Henri J.M. Nouwen _ Discernment: Reading the Signs

    the fruit of the Spirit {Gal. 5:22–23}: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.
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  2. Henri J.M. Nouwen _ Discernment: Reading the Signs

    I also learned afresh that friendship requires a constant willingness to forgive each other for not being Christ, and a willingness to ask Christ himself to be the true center of the relationship.
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  3. Henri J.M. Nouwen _ Discernment: Reading the Signs

    When we are spiritually deaf, we are not aware that anything important is happening in our lives. We keep running away from the present moment, and we try to create experiences that make our lives worthwhile. So we fill up our time to avoid the emptiness we otherwise would feel.
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  4. Henri J.M. Nouwen _ Discernment: Reading the Signs

    it became increasingly clear to me that I know quite well the difference between darkness and light but do not always have the courage to name them by their true names.
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  5. Henri J.M. Nouwen _ Discernment: Reading the Signs

    The wind blows where it chooses, and you hear the sound of it, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit" {John 3:8 NRSV}. To be born of the Spirit is to step into a freedom that we never imagined before. It is to trust that the Spirit
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  6. Henri J.M. Nouwen _ Discernment: Reading the Signs

    The great movement of the spiritual life is from a deaf, nonhearing life to a life of listening.
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  7. Henri J.M. Nouwen _ Discernment: Reading the Signs

    I wonder if the greatest temptation is self-rejection. Could it be that beneath all the lures to greed, lust, and success rests a great fear of never being enough or not being lovable?
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  8. Henri J.M. Nouwen _ Discernment: Reading the Signs

    I encourage you to make a similar commitment to spending time alone with God each day for prayer and meditation. Biblical meditation is a traditional method of solitary prayer. By selecting a particular scripture verse from the gospel reading for the day, or a favourite psalm, or a sentence from a letter from Paul, you can create a safe wall around your heart that will allow you to pay attention.
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  9. Henri J.M. Nouwen _ Discernment: Reading the Signs

    They ask only one question: "what is pleasing to the Spirit of God?" And as soon as they have heard the sound of the Spirit in the silence and solitude of their hearts, they follow its promptings even if it upsets their friends, disrupts their environment, and confuses their admirers.
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  10. Henri J.M. Nouwen _ Discernment: Reading the Signs

    When we see ourselves in a relationship of love with God, there is always something of a lover's dilemma, a struggle to give and receive, to trust and obey the call.
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  11. Henri J.M. Nouwen _ Discernment: Reading the Signs

    People we meet, some great in the eyes of the world and some almost invisible to the larger society, are often conduits of God's wisdom.
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  12. Henri J.M. Nouwen _ Discernment: Reading the Signs

    The gospel proclaims human freedom and dignity more than human enslavement and depravity. What is needed is a balance of biblical values and emphasis on the empowering quality of the gospel. The spiritual values of humility, long suffering, endurance, and obedience are to be affirmed alongside self-reliance, freedom, proclamation, mission, and authority.
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