I Walk with Jesus
Excerpt from Walk with Jesus, “Introduction: I Walk with Jesus”, posted with the kind permission of Orbis Books.
“The poor who walk on the roads and through the deserts and rough places of this world call me to humility - derived from the Latin word “humus”, which means earth or soil. I have to remain close to the soil, the earth. Often I look up into the clouds and daydream about a better world. But my dreams will never bear fruit unless I keep turning my eyes again and again back to the earth and to all these people walking their long, fatiguing walks and inviting me to accompany them. But what does it mean to walk with the poor? It means to recognize my own poverty: my deep inner brokenness, my fatigue, my powerlessness, my mortality. It is there that I am connected with the earth; there that I am truly humble. Yes, it is there that I enter into soldarity with all who walk the earth and discover that I, too, am loved as a very fragile, precious person.” - Henri J.M. Nouwen
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February 18th, 2008 @ 10:44 am
Greetings
The limited number of responses suggests that many of us are struggling with the message that Henri is offering us. I think his message is very wide ranging from telling us something about the death of Jesus as well as His relationship to the Father. Clearly, his human condition was enhanced by help from the Father. In any event I believe you need to read the passages many times before it will sink in.
What I find overwhelming is that Jesus would be able to submit to the crucifixion freely; he had the power to mitigate His suffering. He suffered the insult of the cross, abandonment, intense torture, and having His mother see this event. The situation of His mother seeing the event seems be an escalating factor…the more He suffered the more Mary suffered and the more He then suffered…on and on.
My “nickel”.
Carl Spaeder
February 12th, 2008 @ 12:12 pm
Good comments from everyone. I realize that walking with Jesus requires sacrifice and pain. Our human carnal side does not like sacrifice or pain. I struggle daily to keep spiritual, the world is always waiting to drag you into it though. Radio, TV, newspaper, internet, etc. all proves to be distractions. I try to keep my distance by watching EWTN more and more and keeping my reading to Catholic authors, teachers and the Bible. I will be attending Mass more often during this Lenten season and hope to make it a daily habit, eventually. I will be praying for everyone here and all those other Catholics out in the world with the same struggles and temptations.
God Bless everyone.
February 11th, 2008 @ 9:10 pm
I work in Hospice, and realize that so many of the dying have been abandoned by others, all except Jesus. To truly be like Jesus, we must all live as if these were our last days, and look to Christ for guidance, trust and love. Forget the materialism of the world. Give yourself away to those in need.
Life is hard, there are struggles, issues and pressures to conform. I struggle daily with many thoughts, and it is only through daily solitude and readings that I can make it. There are days I wonder if it is all worth it, but then visit my hospice patient and realize, though them, that God is indeed good all the time. Jesus walks with me…if I only open my eyes to see. With Him, I will not fear.
Lisa
February 11th, 2008 @ 3:51 pm
As I think about walking with Jesus and also about how Jesus chose to leave heaven and walk with all of us, I am humbled by realizing how many choices I have and how lifestyles separate me from so many, how often driving around in a car separates me from people Jesus is walking with. For me, that means I choose to give up driving and walk to get to places as often as I can. This world reality I am living in humbles me and, at the same time, causes me to praise and worship Jesus who chooses to walk with all of us.
February 11th, 2008 @ 8:44 am
I WALK WITH JESUS – This is my first lent. Chronologically, I’ve been around for 64 Easter seasons but this is my first kairos Lent – that opportune moment to use the time. And I’ve been blessed to do it with Nouwen’s WALK WITH JESUS and a community of believers who can share the richness of the stations of the cross in application to our daily lives. As I read the intro, I reflect on the start of Lent – Ash Wednesday – a vivid reminder that we are all dust to dust, ashes to ashes, simply clay. But, clay made physically alive by the breath of God and spiritually alive by Jesus who chose to leave Heaven and walk on earth. And walk…and walk…and walk through all generations, peoples, and tongues. Jesus walks today with each of us if we step away from our computers, televisions, cell phones and text messaging and the Eqypt of modern life…and enter into 40 days of wilderness being sustained by God’s manna. Let us share and rejoice in this opportunity to Walk with Jesus….together.Thank you for participating in this blog. As Bill told Henri, “we did it together”.
PS – Some have said “I read the blog but I don’t have anything to say.” You don’t have to say something profound or brilliant. I certainly don’t. A simple smile : ) hug [ ] or laugh : - () can be a blessing to all of us. Let’s ask God to use this blog and each other to be blessed and bless others.