Nouwen Meditation: Born to Reconcile Henri Nouwen Society Tuesday, 29 December 2020

 Nouwen Meditation: Born to Reconcile

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Tuesday, 29 December 2020 

DAILY MEDITATION | TUESDAY, DECEMBER 29, 2020

Born to Reconcile

If you dare to believe that you are beloved before you are born, you may suddenly realize that your life is very, very special. You become conscious that you were sent here just for a short time, for twenty, forty, or eighty years, to discover and believe that you are a beloved child of God. The length of time doesn’t matter. You are sent into this world to believe in yourself as God’s chosen one and then to help your brothers and sisters know that they are also Beloved Sons and Daughters of God who belong together. You’re sent into this world to be a people of reconciliation. You are sent to heal, to break down the walls between you and your neighbors, locally, nationally, and globally. Before all distinctions, the separations, and the walls built on foundations of fear, there was a unity in the mind and heart of God. Out of that unity, you are sent into this world for a little while to claim that you and every other human being belongs to the same God of Love who lives from eternity to eternity.

Henri J. M. Nouwen

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All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation. (2 CORINTHIANS 5:18 (NIV))

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Text excerpts taken from "You are the Beloved"

by Henri J.M. Nouwen

© 2017 by The Henri Nouwen Legacy Trust.

Published by Convergent Books.

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Scripture reading contributed by L. Yeskoo.

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