When We Fail

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 the truth of our identity begins to descend from our minds into our hearts, we may not feel peace and joy! How easy it is to reject part of you as not really yourself and claim only your ideal self as your real self. Can you and I remember that we are the beloved of God when we fail? When we hurt someone else? Even then, we are God’s beloved called to remember that beneath our woundedness or frailty is the deeper call to live out of the inexhaustible riches of God’s love.”