Words That Create Community (June 25)
Submitted by Ford Prefect on 2002-06-29 10:52:14, Saturday
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Daily Meditation: June 25 by Henri Nouwen; from Bread for the Journey, Harper Collins, New York, 1997 Words That Create Community The word is always a word for others. Words need to be heard. When we give words to what we are living, these words need to be received and responded to. A speaker needs a listener. A writer needs a reader. When the flesh - the lived human experience - becomes word, community can develop. When we say, "Let me tell you what we saw. Come and listen to what we did. Sit down and let me explain to you what happened to us. Wait until you hear whom we met," we call people together and make our lives into lives for others. The word brings us together and calls us into community. When the flesh becomes word, our bodies become part of a body of people. www.nouwen.net |
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