The Henri Nouwen Society of Toronto, Ontario, Canada - Daily Meditation: "The Poverty of Our Leaders" for Saturday, 4 November 2017
DAILY MEDITATION: "
The Poverty of Our Leaders" for Saturday, 4
November 2017
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We need the courage to acknowledge the suffering of the leaders of our Church - its ministers, priests, bishops, and popes - and include them in this fellowship of the weak. When we are not distracted by the power, wealth, and success of those who offer leadership, we will soon discover their powerlessness, poverty, and failures and feel free to reach out to them with the same compassion we want to give to those at the bottom. In God's eyes there is no distance between bottom and top. There shouldn't be in our eyes either.
For further reflection...
"Yet, O Lord, you are our Father. We are the clay, you are the potter; we are all the work of your hand." (Isaiah 64: 8 (NIV))
Your response...
Where do you see a poverty of spirit in the world today?
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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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