"After everything has been said and done, what we have to offer is our authentic selves in relationship to others. What matters most, what transforms, is the influence of a humble, vulnerable witness to the truth...
To be a witness means to offer your own faith experience and to make your doubts and hopes, failures and successes, loneliness and woundedness, available to others as a context in which they can struggle with their own humanness and quest for meaning. Instead, we often hide behind our many emotional, mental and spiritual masks. Who really wants to make their struggles available to others as a source of growth and understanding? Who wants to be reminded of their weaknesses and limitations, doubts and uncertainties? Who wants to confess that God cannot be understood, that human experience is not explainable, and that the great questions of life do not lead to answers but only to deeper questions?
When God enters into the centre of our lives to unmask our illusion of possessing final solutions and to disarm us with always deeper questions, we will not necessarily have an easier or simpler life, but certainly a life that is honest, courageous, and marked with the ongoing search for truth. Sometimes, in living the questions, answers are found." - Henri Nouwen, Spiritual Direction
4 comments:
I should have told you before now, but I love your blog! You have a way with words and I appreciate your authenticity. Thanks for using your writing to be the kind of "witness" Nouwen is referring to! :)
Great entry!
It takes courage to be honest about where we are in our walk and what God is doing. But to HIM all glory....He must increase, and I must decrease....
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