Sunday, June 25, 2017

The Henri Nouwen Society in Toronto, Ontario, Canada - Daily Meditation for Sunday, 25 June 2017: "Words That Create Community"

The Henri Nouwen Society in Toronto, Ontario, Canada - Daily Meditation for Sunday, 25 June 2017: "Words That Create Community"


DAILY MEDITATION: "Words That Create Community"
Sunday, 25 June 2017
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The word is always a word for others. Words need to be heard. When we give words to what we are living, these words need to be received and responded to. A speaker needs a listener. A writer needs a reader.
When the flesh - the lived human experience - becomes word, community can develop. When we say, "Let me tell you what we saw. Come and listen to what we did. Sit down and let me explain to you what happened to us.
Wait until you hear whom we met," we call people together and make our lives into lives for others. The word brings us together and calls us into community. When the flesh becomes word, our bodies become part of a body of people.
Henri Nouwen
For further reflection...

"Only be careful, and watch yourselves closely so that you do not forget the things your eyes have seen or let them slip from your heart as long as you live.  Teach them to your children and to their children after them." [Deuteronomy 4: 9]
Your response...

Where do you need to listen (or be listened to) to build community?
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Text excerpts taken from Bread for the Journey, by Henri J.M. Nouwen, ©1997 HarperSanFrancisco. All Scripture from The Jerusalem Bible ©1966, 1967, and 1968 Darton, Longman & Todd and Doubleday & Co. Inc. Scripture chosen by L. Yeskoo.
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