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Book: With Open Hands
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Henri J.M. Nouwen _ With Open Hands
When we live with hope we do not get tangled up with concerns for how our wishes will be fulfilled. So, too, our prayers are not directed toward the gift, but toward the one who gives it. Our prayers might still contain just as many desires, but ultimately it is not a question of having a wish come true but of expressing an unlimited faith in the giver of all good things. You wish that…but you hope in….
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Henri J.M. Nouwen _ With Open Hands
The immense difference that exists between hope and wishfulness is revealed in the remarks of a student who wrote: "I see hope as an attitude where everything stays open before me. Not that I don't think of my future in those moments, but I think of it in an entirely different way. Daring to stay open to whatever will come to me today, tomorrow, two months from now, or a year from now-that is hope. To go fearlessly into things without knowing how they'll turn out, to keep on going, even when something doesn't work the first time, to have trust in whatever you're doing-that is living with hope.
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Henri J.M. Nouwen _ With Open Hands
Often you will catch yourself wanting to receive your loving God by putting on a semblance of beauty, by holding back everything dirty and spoiled, by clearing just a little path that looks proper. But that is a fearful response-forced and artificial. Such a response exhausts you and turns your prayer into torment."
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Henri J.M. Nouwen _ With Open Hands
To care for others requires an ever-increasing acceptance.
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Henri J.M. Nouwen _ With Open Hands
The resistance to praying is like the resistance of tightly clenched fists. This image shows a tension, a desire to cling tightly to yourself, a greediness which betrays fear."
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