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by: Henri Nouwen
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 248.482
EAN: 9780385236287
ISBN: 038523628X
Label: Image
Manufacturer: Image
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 128
Publication Date: February 23, 1989
Publisher: Image
Release Date: January 23, 1989
Sales Rank: 130632
Studio: Image
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Best-selling author Henri Nouwen shows how three of the most vital elements of human life offer Christians the essential key to a life filled with hope and love.
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Rating:  - Directions from a spiritual master
Psychologist--Priest, Henri Nouwen is the author of 40 books on the spiritual life read widely by Catholics and Protestants. His book The Wounded Healer is required reading for psychotherapists. He taught at the Menninger Foundation, Yale, Harvard and in his last years shared his life with the developmentally disabled at the L'Arche Daybreak community (referring to Noah's ark) in Toronto, founded by Jean Vanier. Here he found in the small society of the handicapped a paradigm for a society governed ... Read More
Rating:  - A commentary on John 15
I was reading John 15 one day for my quiet time about 5 years ago. I read about the abiding and the joy. I decided that I did not often feel "at home", nor was the joy discribed here very tangible to me. I decided to hang out on this chapter until I felt some sense of home and some joy. I had found this book for $1.50 at a used book store. I bought it because I loved Nouwen's other books. I put it on my "to read later" shelf. I did a search on the internet for John 15 books and this one came up. I remembered ... Read More
Rating: - Fear is the manifestation in negative of faith
fecundity means consciousness
Fear is the manifestation in negative of faith.
Whenever a person feel fear they are using all the techniques for creation in negative degree.
The person will pronounce the words that describe their fear, will probably visualize with great clarity that which could happen to them, will feel on their body the reactions that fear produce and finally if we insist on this process the manifestation of that which is feared will very easily
come true. ... Read More
Rating: - This is a very good lesson that repeats on me
I go back to this book from time to time. I believe that I first saw the citation for it in Sandra Wilson's book "Into Abba's Arms". I read it first as I was separated from my wife. It was a painful time. Jesus used to the book to lift my spirits, and change my outlook. The book also showed me some reasons why intimacy was hard to achieve (because I wasn't trusting in God's love), and why I would get trapped in striving (to please, to be noticed, to get attaboys) because I wasn't really fruitful (because ... Read More
Rating: - A solid, inspiring book
Henri Nouwen has never written a bad book. If you're a fan of Fr. Nouwen, you'll again be touched by this simple, practical and penetrating book.
I especially liked the chapter on fecundity, a word not much used these days. He focuses on the difference between being fecund or "fruitful" vs. productive. In our post modern culture, we have the daily, desperate experience of living without bearing fruit. We are busy producing but little is life giving or fruitful. He has some good thoughts and practical ... Read More
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