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The fruits of your labors may be reaped two generations from now. Trust, even when you don’t see the results.

Henri Nouwen

Dare to love and to be a real friend. The love you give and receive is a reality that will lead you closer and closer to God as well as those whom God has given you to love.
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Dare Friendship God Love Reality Yourself
The only feelings that do not heal are the ones you hide.
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Feeling Healing Hide Oneself
We cannot make it rain but we can see to it that the rain falls on prepared soil.
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Fall Preparation Rain See
Hospitality is not to change people, but to offer them space where change can take place.
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Change Offering People Space
Community means that people come together around the table, not just to feed their bodies, but to feed their minds and their relationships.
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Community Food Mindset People Relationship Togetherness
Every time I take a step in the direction of generosity, I know I am moving from fear to love.
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Direction Fear Generosity Love Time
The greatest trap in our life is not success, popularity or power, but self-rejection.
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Greatness Life Popularity Power Rejection Success Trap
Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.
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Illusion Life Property Share Violence
Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day.
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Day Joy Simplicity
Life is just a little opportunity for you during a few years to say, “I love you, too.”
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I Love You Life Opportunity
Our greatest fulfillment lies in giving ourselves to others.
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Fulfill Greatness Lying Ourselves
Be surprised by joy, be surprised by the little flower that shows its beauty in the midst of a barren desert, and be surprised by the immense healing power that keeps bursting forth like springs of fresh water from the depth of our pain.
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Beautiful Flower Joy Ourselves Pain Power Water
I feel strongly that the God we meet in solitude is always the God who calls us to community.
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Community Feeling Solitude Strong
God, help me to see others not as enemies or as ungodly but rather as thirsty people. And give me the courage and compassion to offer your Living Water, which alone quenches deep thirst.
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Alone Compassionate Courage God Help People See Sight
This brief lifetime is my opportunity to receive love, deepen love, grow in love, and give love.
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Generosity Life Love Opportunity Time
I trust in you, Lord, but keep helping me in my moments of distrust and doubt.
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Doubt Help Moments Myself Trust

The fruits of your labors may be reaped two generations from now. Trust, even when you don’t see the results.

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