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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.

Henri Nouwen

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
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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Generation Result See Trust
Joy is the experience of knowing that you are unconditionally loved.
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Experience Joy Love Yourself
Trust that the treasure we look for is hidden in the ground on which we stand.
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Ground Hide Stand Treasure Trust
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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Healing Hide Question Service Wound
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
In a world so torn apart by rivalry, anger, and hatred, we have the privileged vocation to be living signs of a love that can bridge all divisions and heal all wounds.
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Division Healing Live Love Privilege Rival World Wound
Waiting time is not wasting time. Waiting patiently in expectation is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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Foundation Life Patience Spiritual Time
Every time there are losses, there are choices to be made. You choose to live your losses as passages to anger, blame, hatred, depression and resentment, or you choose to let these losses be passages to something new, something wider, and deeper.
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Angry Blame Choice Hate Live Loss Time Wide
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
Prayer is not what is done by us, but rather what is done by the Holy Spirit in us.
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Prayer Religious Spirit
Once we deeply trust that we ourselves are precious in God’s eyes, we are able to recognize the preciousness of others and their unique places in God’s heart.
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Deep Eyes God Heart Place Trust Unique
Listening is a form of spiritual hospitality by which you invite strangers to become friends, to get to know their inner selves more fully, and even to dare to be silent with you.
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Dare Form Invitation Listening Silence Spiritual Stranger Yourself
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

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