Loving From God’s Love

Text excerpts taken from “Discernment: Reading the Signs of Daily Life”

by Henri J.M. Nouwen

© 2015 by The Henri Nouwen Legacy Trust.

Published by HarperOne.

 

“When we understand the mystery that we are loved not for what we do but because of who God says we are, we are free to love others in a similar way. Discerning what to do and who to serve changes radically when we know we love from God’s love and serve from God’s heart. The very places where we might be called open wider as we understand that announcing God’s love for the poor, the wounded, and the sick is at the heart of all responses to the truth and that we all are the beloved ones of God.”