Blessed are the Poor
"Our Poverty, God's Dwelling Place
How can we embrace poverty as a way to God when everyone around us wants to become rich? Poverty has many forms. We have to ask ourselves: "What is my poverty?" Is it lack of money, lack of emotional stability, lack of a loving partner, lack of security, lack of safety, lack of self-confidence? Each human being has a place of poverty. That's the place where God wants to dwell! "How blessed are the poor," Jesus says (Matthew 5:3). This means that our blessing is hidden in our poverty."
August 18, 2006 Daily Meditation
from Henri Nouwen Daily Meditations
posted by steph @ 7:39 AM
3 comments
3 Comments:
i haven't been reading those daily meditations lately, convinced myself i'm "too busy" i guess.
thank you for highlighting this one steph - it's so powerful! our blessings are hidden in our poverty. i love that he makes it about more than just money.
Not only did this fit with our ministry Bobbie but it reminds me that our poverty is real and as we live in it and build relationship with the Almighty our view of "being rich" is shifted from external to internal, from things to relationships, and from religiosity to following Jesus.
Steph - I thought of you and some of our conversations in Montreail when ire ad this - I forget so easily to widen my defination of poverty, and to keep it internal as well as ex. As bobbie said, thanks for highlighting it.
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