Lent day 20

greetings!

have i mentioned lately how much i love henri nouwen?

can't wait to meet him in heaven...

YES, i am sure he is there...

he had his problems...

but...

so do i...

do you have yours???

thank god, it's not about our goodness -- it is about grace...

grace greater than our capacity to screw it up...

nouwen always seems to put into words the secret places of my heart...

i have needed him over the past four years to take me to internal places where i really did NOT want to go...

but where i most needed to go...

he has been a welcomed candle giving a flickering, fragile flame to my spirit...

chasing away entire rooms of stubborn and long-standing darkness...

the holy spirit has used his writings to re-awaken my mid-life soul...

given my childhood, i have spent most of my adult life asking God to expand my heart beyond prejudice...

to give me his love of another kind that speaks a brutal and welcomed death to pre-judging...

to become an authentically nonjudgemental presence in this world...

check this out...

"One of the hardest spiritual tasks is to live without prejudices.

Sometimes we aren't even aware how deeply rooted our prejudices are.

We may think that we relate to people who are different from us in colour, religion, sexual orientation, or lifestyle as equals, but in concrete circumstances our spontaneous thoughts, uncensored words, and knee-jerk reactions often reveal that our prejudices are still there.

Strangers, people different than we are, stir up fear, discomfort, suspicion, and hostility.

They make us lose our sense of security just by being 'other.'

Only when we fully claim that God loves us in an unconditional way and look at 'those other persons' as equally loved can we begin to discover that the great variety in being human is an expression of the immense richness of God's heart.

Then the need to prejudge people can gradually disappear."

want to join me on this journey...

let's walk into the wholeness of love together...

shalom...

guy

my eyes are VERY heavy -- good night...