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Book: You Are the Beloved: Daily Meditations for Spiritual Living
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  1. Henri J.M. Nouwen _ You Are the Beloved: Daily

    Henri found a new capacity for joy. By claiming his belovedness, he had more compassion for people who hurt him, more courage to live his struggles as gateways to inner freedom. He became more loving, and felt more at peace with himself and the world.
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  2. Henri J.M. Nouwen _ You Are the Beloved: Daily

    Poverty, pain, struggle, anguish, agony, and even inner darkness may continue to be part of our experience. They may even be God's way of purifying us. But life is no longer boring, resentful, depressing, or lonely because we have come to know that everything that happens is part of our way to the Father.
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  3. Henri J.M. Nouwen _ You Are the Beloved: Daily

    when prayer is no longer its primary concern, and when its many activities are no longer seen and experienced as part of prayer itself, the community quickly degenerates into a club with a common cause but no common vocation."
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  4. Henri J.M. Nouwen _ You Are the Beloved: Daily

    Jesus is the obedient one. The center of his life is this obedient relationship with the Father. This may be hard for us to understand because the word obedience has so many negative connotations in our society. It makes us think of authority figures who impose their wills against our desires. It makes us remember unhappy childhood events or hard tasks performed under threats of punishment. But none of this applies to Jesus' obedience. His obedience means a total, fearless listening to his loving Father. Between the Father and the Son there is only love. Making All Things New
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  5. Henri J.M. Nouwen _ You Are the Beloved: Daily

    Around the table, we know whether there is friendship and community or hatred and division. Precisely because the table is the place of intimacy for all the members of the household, it is also the place where the absence of that intimacy is most painfully revealed."
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