The L'Arche Canada Foundation in Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada with Jean Vanier's Daily Thoughts for Tuesday, 4 October 2016 "Spiritual Growth"The seed of the Spirit has been planted in each of us. We must learn how to nourish this seed so that it can grow and bear much fruit. This journey, our pilgrimage of love, begins and deepens as we hear God murmur within our hearts: I love you just as you are. I so love you that I come to heal you and give you life. Do not be afraid. Open your hearts.[Jean Vanier, Drawn into the Mystery of Jesus through the Gospel of John, page 87]
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Jean Vanier's Daily Thought
>> Image from: Portraits - L'Arche Greater Vancouver (Juan Olaechea)"Hope and Love"
I marvel sometimes when I visit families with a son or a daughter who has a severe handicap. The parents are living each day, and sometimes the whole day, with little help or times of rest. They are not admired or honoured for what they are doing; sometimes they are even criticised for not having aborted their child or put him or her into an institution, outside the general run of society. We in l'Arche have days off; we get help and encouragement from professionals and clergy. We even receive salaries. And often people see us as wonderful and generous people. And yet, isn't it those families who are living love and truth and humility and abandonment to God in a special way? Isn't it all those families in the ghettos of large cities struggling to feed their children who are radiating a truth bout our humanity? People who have chosen to live in community have much to learn from all those people throughout the world who are living love in a simple hidden way, and who are there welcoming and forgiving.[Jean Vanier, Community and Growth, page 312]
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