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Discernment: Reading The Signs Of Daily Life (2013)

by Henri J.M. Nouwen(Favorite Author)

4.08 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0061686158 (ISBN13: 9780061686153)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

HarperOne

review 1: This book would make an excellent book for a church book club or small group meeting. Nouwen's writing is straightforward, but extremely powerful. Quotes:Ch. 1"I will see great things when I am willing to be seen. I will receive new eyes that can see the mysteries of God's own life, but only when I allow God to see me, all of me, even those parts that I myself do not want to see."Ch. 2"The demon is patient in the way it seeks to devour and destroy the work of God.""Self-rejection is the greatest enemy of the spiritual life because it contradicts the sacred voice that calls us God's beloved.""I find it easier to pray in places where people have prayed long before, and harder to pray in places where seldom a prayer has been uttered."Chapter 3 - aseitas - that god is pure b... moreeing, non-contingent and independent of any act of existing Ch 6 - "kairos" - contains both past and future events in the present moment. Ch 7 - sometimes the way to know where you are called to be is to go where you feel you need to go and be present in that place. Soon you will know if that place is where god wants you.Ch 8 - in some mysterious way, in the absence of a loved one from the past, I sense a spiritual closeness in the present that prepares me for a reunion in the future that is deeper and fuller than their presence in the past of their presence in the present. ... It is the continuation of a relationship that still exists and has yet to come to fulfillment.
review 2: The third of a posthumously published trilogy planned by Nouwen, the publishers recommend _Discernment_ for an Advent or Lenten study. After reading it, I agree, they would be fine for those times, but even more important in Ordinary Time. Why? That's when we need to practice discernment the most: every day. Holidays and fasts and feasts have their expected liturgies public and private, their practices and traditions. But it is in the ordinary days that we tend to get lost, to struggle to know our purpose or answer our calling, to feel beloved and loving. less

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