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“A Spirituality of Waiting”

April 2, 2008 |

Posted by joanied · Filed Under Christian Philosophy 

 http://benwitherington.blogspot.com/

Ben Witherington III gives a link on his blog to an article by priest/author Henri Nouwen called A Spirituality of Waiting

You can read it at:

http://www.ciu.edu/resources/displaypdf.php?25

I like how he talks about some of the people in the Bible actively waiting.

Some of my favorite things from it are:

“So waiting is never a movement from nothing to something. It is always a movement from something to something more.”

“The secret of waiting is the faith that the seed has been planted, that something has begun. Active waiting means to be present fully to the moment, in the conviction that something is happening. A waiting person is a patient person.”

“To wait open-endedly is an enormously radical attitude toward life. So is to trust that something will happen to us that is far beyond our own imaginings. So, too, is giving up control over our future and letting God define our life, trusting that God molds us according to God’s love and not according to our fear.”

Experiencing the resurrection

“When we allow ourselves to feel fully how we are being acted upon, we can come in touch with a new life that we were not even aware was there.”

“If it is true that God in Jesus Christ is waiting for our response to divine love, then we can discover a whole new perspective on how to wait in life.”

Joanie D.


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