Headed to live with and the Nicaraguan People for the next two weeks. Please pray for me as I do my best to encourage my brothers and sisters as they face the many real challenges of struggling with poverty. Pray also that I may learn of my own poverty; learning from the deep richness they posses. -Henri Nouwen "The poor who walk on the roads and through the deserts and rough places of this world call me to humility - derived from the Latin word "humus," which means earth or soil. I have to remain close to the soil, the earth. Often I look up into the clouds and daydream about a better world. But my dreams will never bear fruit unless I keep turning my eyes again and again back to the earth and to all those people walking their long, fatiguing walks and inviting me to accompany them. But what does it mean to walk with the poor? It means to recognize my own poverty: my deep inner brokenness, my fatigue, my powerlessness, my mortality. It is there that I am connected with the earth; there that I am truly humble. Yes, its is there that I enter into solidarity with all who walk the earth and discover that I, too, am loved by God as a very fragile, precious person. "
Posted on: Sun, 07 Jul 2013 21:36:16 +0000
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