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Henri Nouwen Society - Daily Meditation

Thursday June 13, 2013 

 

The Source of All Love

 

Without the love of our parents, sisters, brothers, spouses, lovers, and friends, we cannot live.  Without love we die.  Still, for many people this love comes in a very broken and limited way.  It can be tainted by power plays, jealousy, resentment, vindictiveness, and even abuse.  No human love is the perfect love our hearts desire, and sometimes human love is so imperfect that we can hardly recognise it as love.

 

In order not to be destroyed by the wounds inflicted by that imperfect human love, we must trust that the source of all love is God's unlimited, unconditional, perfect love, and that this love is not far away from us but is the gift of God's Spirit dwelling within us.

 

- Henri J. M. Nouwen  

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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. Photo by V. Dobson.