"When you start believing that [you are the beloved of God], this spiritual knowledge will grow until it transforms daily life. You will still have rejections and you will still have pains and losses, but you will live them no longer as a person searching for his or her identity. You will live them as the beloved. You will live your pain and anguish, your success and failures, as one who knows who you are."
Henri Nouwen is his book Discernment writes,
"When you start believing that [you are the beloved of God], this spiritual knowledge will grow until it transforms daily life. You will still have rejections and you will still have pains and losses, but you will live them no longer as a person searching for his or her identity. You will live them as the beloved. You will live your pain and anguish, your success and failures, as one who knows who you are."
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Deanna
5/22/2015 04:08:52 am
I So love reading this today...it's helpful to remember that I am whole, nothing wrong, always improvements available, but am just right today!
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AuthorTarn Wilson is the author of the memoir The Slow Farm and numerous essays. You may read more of her work at tarnwilson.com. Archives
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