The L'Arche Canada Foundation in Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada with Jean Vanier's Daily Thoughts for Friday, 30 September 2016 "Prayer"We all have to find our own rhythm of prayer. For some of us, it will mean praying for hours at a time, for others, fifteen minutes here and there. For all of us it means being attentive to God's presence and will throughout the day.[Jean Vanier, Community and Growth, page 190]
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Jean Vanier's Daily Thought
>> Image from: Expo Haiti-Quebec (Jonathan Boulet-Groulx)"Etty Hillesum"
Etty Hillesum, that incredibly beautiful woman who died in Auschwitz in 1943, whose diary was published in a book titled "The Interrupted Life", tells her story about her gradual discovery about where God resides. In her!She recalls being in Westerbork, which was a camp where 10,000 Jewish people were waiting to be taken away, and she says some incredible words. "It isn't that I need God; God needs me!" She explains that God needs me to open my heart so that I can receive God into my being and then begin to radiate the presence of God which is the presence of peace, the presence of forgiveness, the presence of compassion.[L'Arche Canada - 2016]
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We all have to find our own rhythm of prayer. For some of us, it will mean praying for hours at a time, for others, fifteen minutes here and there. For all of us it means being attentive to God's presence and will throughout the day.[Jean Vanier, Community and Growth, page 190]
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Jean Vanier's Daily Thought
>> Image from: Expo Haiti-Quebec (Jonathan Boulet-Groulx)"Etty Hillesum"
Etty Hillesum, that incredibly beautiful woman who died in Auschwitz in 1943, whose diary was published in a book titled "The Interrupted Life", tells her story about her gradual discovery about where God resides. In her!She recalls being in Westerbork, which was a camp where 10,000 Jewish people were waiting to be taken away, and she says some incredible words. "It isn't that I need God; God needs me!" She explains that God needs me to open my heart so that I can receive God into my being and then begin to radiate the presence of God which is the presence of peace, the presence of forgiveness, the presence of compassion.[L'Arche Canada - 2016]
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