" The unfathomable mystery of God is that God is a Lover who wants to be loved.
The one who created us is waiting for our response to the love that gave us our being.
God not only says: “You are my Beloved.”
God also asks: “Do you love me?” and offers us countless chances to say “Yes.”
That is the spiritual life: the chance to say “Yes” to our inner truth."
The one who created us is waiting for our response to the love that gave us our being.
God not only says: “You are my Beloved.”
God also asks: “Do you love me?” and offers us countless chances to say “Yes.”
That is the spiritual life: the chance to say “Yes” to our inner truth."
The spiritual life, thus understood, radically changes everything.
Being born and growing up, leaving home and finding a career, being praised and being rejected, walking and resting,
praying and playing,
becoming ill and being healed –
yes, living and dying –
they all become expressions of that divine question: “Do you love me?”
And at every point of the journey,
there is the choice for each one of us to say “Yes”
and the choice to say “No”
Being born and growing up, leaving home and finding a career, being praised and being rejected, walking and resting,
praying and playing,
becoming ill and being healed –
yes, living and dying –
they all become expressions of that divine question: “Do you love me?”
And at every point of the journey,
there is the choice for each one of us to say “Yes”
and the choice to say “No”
Quotations by Henri Nouwen from his classic work 'Life of the Beloved'
Photos from Hempta Trek, Himalayas.
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