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Tag Archives: Henri Nouwen
Becoming a Wounded Healer – Part 3
Weeping may linger for the night, but joy comes with the morning. You have turned my mourning into dancing; you have taken my off my sackcloth and clothed me with joy. Psalm 30:5b; 11-12 (NRSV) In Scripture, we see Jesus … Continue reading
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Tagged communion, Henri Nouwen, sorrow
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Becoming a Wounded Healer – Part 2
“Weeping may linger for the night, but joy comes with the morning. You have turned my mourning into dancing; you have taken my off my sackcloth and clothed me with joy. Psalm 30;5 b; 11-12 (NRSV) What exactly is a wounded … Continue reading
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Tagged forgiveness, Henri Nouwen, Jeremiah 33, wounded healer
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Countering the World’s Darkness
Note to “followers”: This may have gone out to you earlier last week as a DRAFT. I’m re-posting it so that it will be part of the actual blog Living as Apprentices in an amoral world that daily spawns pain, … Continue reading
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Tagged Charles Moore, Clarence Jorden, Henri Nouwen, John Lewis, Karl Rahner, Martin Luther King
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More Thoughts on Wounded Healers
LIVING AS APPRENTICES In my first year of teaching junior high (the term shows you how long ago that was!) I had a frustrating experience. It was time for grammar, and we were diagramming sentences (again a sign of my … Continue reading
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Tagged Henri Nouwen, hypocrites in the Church, The Wounded Healer
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Moving on Down the Road
My Journey Hundreds of books have now been purged, given away, or moved (bag by bag, box by box over the last two weeks) from the church office to my “work-in-progress” home office. My plants also have been ferried to … Continue reading
The Legacy of Suffering
Last night an Apprentice class I am teaching focused on the concept of the huge personal transformation that is possible when we realize to the bottom of our souls that Christ’s sacrifice and resurrection mean that we are new creations … Continue reading
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Tagged Henri Nouwen, James Bryan Smith, redeeming suffering, Richard Rohr, wounded healers
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Breathing Under Water – Part 9
“Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.” Step 8 & 9 of … Continue reading
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