"We're living in a culture that measures the value of the human person by degrees of success and productivity....Do we dare to look at weakness as an opportunity to become fruitful? Fruitfulness in the spiritual life is about love and this fruitfulness is very different from sucess or productivity."-
Henri Nouwen
This collection of four short essays looks at different aspects of our spiritual life:
. The Path of Power
. The Path of Peace
. The Path of Peace
. The Path of Waiting
. The Path of Living and Dying
"Nouwen's theology of downward mobility is certainly not a popular one in our society where our value is usually determined by success, popularity and influence. Try telling an olympic athlete that those who fail to win any medals are just as good as those who win the gold! In Finding My Way Home we find, "When you wind and receive a prize you know there is somebody who lost. But this is not so in the heart of God. If you are chosen in the heart of God, you have eyes to see the chosenness of others." - from the foreword by Wendy Wilson Greer, President, Henri Nouwen
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