Missionary Renegade: The Daily Meditation: "The Spirit of Jesus Listening in Us" The Henri Nouwen Society in Toronto, Ontario, Canada for the Monday, 12 March 2018

Monday, March 12, 2018

The Daily Meditation: "The Spirit of Jesus Listening in Us" The Henri Nouwen Society in Toronto, Ontario, Canada for the Monday, 12 March 2018

DAILY MEDITATION: "The Spirit of Jesus Listening in Us" for Monday, 12 March 2018

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Listening in the spiritual life is much more than a psychological strategy to help others discover themselves. In the spiritual life the listener is not the ego, which would like to speak but is trained to restrain itself, but the Spirit of God within us. When we are baptised in the Spirit - that is, when we have received the Spirit of Jesus as the breath of God breathing within us - that Spirit creates in us a sacred space where the other can be received and listened to. The Spirit of Jesus prays in us and listens in us to all who come to us with their sufferings and pains.
When we dare to fully trust in the power of God's Spirit listening in us, we will see true healing occur.

For further reflection...
"If anyone has ears to hear, let them hear. Consider carefully what you hear," Jesus continued. "With the measure you use it will be measured to you -- and even more." (Mark 4: 23-24 (NIV))
Your response...
Who can the Spirit of Jesus (working through you) listen to 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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