The L'Arche Canada of Toronto, Ontario, Canada Daily Thoughts with Jean Vanier for Saturday, 12 November 2016 "Learning to Grow"

The L'Arche Canada of Toronto, Ontario, Canada Daily Thoughts with Jean Vanier for Saturday, 12 November 2016 "Learning to Grow"
We have to learn to draw on our suffering, distress and setbacks so that we can grow spiritually. It is so easy for us to get locked into frustration, anger and depression.[Jean Vanier, Community and Growth, page 247]
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The L'Arche Canada of Toronto, Ontario, Canada Daily Thoughts with Jean Vanier for Friday, 11 November 2016 "Psychology"
Psychology is helpful as far as it goes, in its aim to bring a certain psychological freedom. But men and women of God, who have grown in spiritual direction, help others to live with their psychological blocks and to grow in the will of God and in love for their brothers and sisters. They help them to do this in love and humility, in certainty that this is one of the best ways to make the blocks disappear. They help people to stay in the light of God.[Jean Vanier, Community and Growth, page 246]
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The L'Arche Canada of Toronto, Ontario, Canada Daily Thoughts with Jean Vanier for Thursday, 10 November 2016 "Preparing the Meal"
The way the table is set is important. So is the placing of people around it. If some are a bit strung up, there are others who shouldn't be put next to them. There is a whole discernment of love to be made here.[Jean Vanier, Community and Growth, page 324]
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The L'Arche Canada of Toronto, Ontario, Canada Daily Thoughts with Jean Vanier for Wednesday, 9 November 2016 "A Model for Interfaith Relationships"
Peace comes as we approach others humbly, disarmed, from a place of truth, not from a place of superiority. Isn't that the vision at the heart of all interdenominational and interfaith dialogue. I am profoundly touched by Pope Jean Paul II, who went to the Jewish synagogue in Rome, who spoke to young Muslims when he was in Morocco, who travelled to Jerusalem in order to ask for fogiveness for the ways Catholics have treated Jewish people over the centuries.[Jean Vanier, Drawn into the Mystery of Jesus, page 215]-------