Linked into a Community

This Lent season I am 'adding' to my spiritual life instead of 'subtracting' and so I've added the Henri Nouwen daily email readings, and also the Lenten reflections on the Prodigal Son. I wanted to encourage you with these words.

 

"As a beloved child of God, you are unlike any other person.  You are a unique daughter of God, a unique son of God.  By living your life as a child of God you have a unique statement to make and I encourage you to make it.  If you let your life go by without having said anything, you allow the world to define you as ordinary.  But the world doesn't need any more ordinary people.  The world needs witnesses, prophets, teachers, lovers.  The human family needs people who claim God within them, and speak out by living lives of hope and compassion.  If you claim this identity, and live it, you must be prepared, because the world may laugh at you.  But if you know who you are as a son or daughter of God, linked into a community of believers, you will grow and give hope to brothers and sisters everywhere."

 

I like the idea of our identity in Christ, as sons and daughters of God, and being linked into a community of believers.  The image of a chain, linked one to another, arm in arm.  We need each other and, no matter who we are or where we are at in our journey Christ is the centre and enables the chain to stay together.

 

Grace Neudorf