Reaching Out - Week 5 - Question #3
How does this book have the potential to transform your life of solitude? Community? Prayer?
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March 10th, 2006 @ 4:49 pm
The paragraph on page 94 of chapter 7 was particularly potent for me and where I am in life. I wanted to remember it and so I made a prayer out of it that I will pray daily and as often as I can. Perhaps I will come to shed that illusion bit by bit over time. Here it is.
Lord, I don’t know what life is all about. I don’t rule it. I don’t determine its value or even its goals. Most of the time I feel the weight of its absurdities. Sometimes I am able to see beyond. But my illusions of control and immortality and my expectations of order and a pain free life doesn’t let me know the joy of being your child, doesn’t allow me the joy of letting it go and fixing my eyes on you. So I release my illusions that this life is mine to order. And I lift this life of mine, though not mine, through and beyond its absurdities to you, God, Creater, Redeemer, and Guide, the One who holds me and loves me with boundless love and mercy. Amen
March 7th, 2006 @ 10:41 am
Nouwen’s overwhelming call to compassion without illusion toward oneself, toward others and to life itself is transformative. He brings Christ’s message of the journey toward eternal love through Prayer, the foundation of solitude and hospitality to others. He encourages forgiveness, courage, gentleness and hope in the midst of life’s struggles. This book is a call to me to “remember I am with you always.”