Jean Vanier’s Daily Thought – Saturday
11 January 2014 “The Presence of God”
I am drawn to the communities
whose roots are in the poorest neighborhoods, which welcome those who have been
deeply wounded, like alcoholics, people just coming out of prison, young people
lost in drugs, delinquents or people with mental illnesses. There is not always
much joy and fun in these communities, but there is great fidelity and
acceptance of woundedness. The faces of the people who work in them are lined
with fatigue. But in these communities we feel the presence of God, who is
close to the most rejected and wounded people of all.(Jean Vanier, Community
and Growth, page 147)
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