I read Henri Nouwen’s Life of the Beloved in my early twenties. Reading that I was precious in God’s eyes simply because God made me and I am God’s was revolutionary, even for someone who had grown up in church. I guess I had gotten stuck in some alternative narratives of a punishing ….

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This post appeared here first: Forward Day By Day – July 31, 2019

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