Learning to weep, learning to keep vigil, learning to wait for the dawn. Perhaps this is what it means to be human.
HENRI NOUWENLearning to weep, learning to keep vigil, learning to wait for the dawn. Perhaps this is what it means to be human.
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Let’s not be afraid to look at everything that has brought us to where we are now and trust that we will soon see in it the guiding hand of a loving God.
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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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For Jesus, there are no countries to be conquered, no ideologies to be imposed, no people to be dominated. There are only children, women and men to be loved.
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Your heart is greater than your wounds.
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Compassion requires us to be weak with the weak, vulnerable with the vulnerable, and powerless with the powerless. Compassion means full immersion in the condition of being human.
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Joy is the experience of knowing that you are unconditionally loved.
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Community is first of all a quality of the heart. It grows from the spiritual knowledge that we are alive not for ourselves but for one another.
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When we are crushed like grapes, we cannot think of the wine we will become.
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We are all healers who can reach out and offer health, and we are all patients in constant need of help.
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Trust that the treasure we look for is hidden in the ground on which we stand.
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It is in solitude that we discover that being is more important than having and that we are worth more than the results of our efforts. In solitude we discover that our life is not a possession to be defended but a gift to be shared.
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I am the prodigal son every time I search for unconditional love where it cannot be found.
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Those we most love cause us not only great joy but also great pain. LOVE is stronger than fear, life stronger than death, hope stronger than despair. We have to trust that the risk of loving is always worth taking.
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The main question is not, how can we hide our wounds but how can we put our woundedness in service to others.
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What makes us human is not our mind but our heart, not our ability to think but our ability to love.
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