Jean Vanier’s Daily Thought – Wednesday
29 January 2014 “Fidelity”
Our essential nourishment is
the fidelity to the thousand and one small demands of each day, the effort to
love and forgive 'the enemy' and to welcome and accept community structures,
with all that this brings by way of co-operation with authority. It is fidelity
in listening to the poor of the community, in accepting a simple and unheroic
life. It is fidelity in directing personal projects towards the good of the
community and its poorest members and in renouncing purely personal prestige.--Jean
Vanier, Community and Growth, page 169
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