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Henri J. M. Nouwen, Making All Things New, an Invitation to the Spiritual Life, Harper San Francisco, 1981, pp. 36, 37.    SoAmazing.com

Category: Christian Living
ISBN: 006066326X
Keywords: worry, worrying, fragments, home, spiritual crisis, spiritual, homeless, center, unfulfilled, Jesus, Harper San Francisco, Nouwen, Henri J. M. Nouwen

"One of the most notable characteristics of worrying is that it fragments our lives. The many things to do, to think about, to plan for, the many people to remember, to visit, or to talk with, the many causes to attack or defend, all these pull us apart and make us lose our center. Worrying causes us to be 'all over the place,' but seldom at home. One way to express the spiritual crisis of our time is to say that most of us have an address but cannot be found there. We know where we belong, but we keep being pulled away in many directions, as if we were still homeless. 'All these other things' keep demanding our attention. They lead us so far from home that we eventually forget our true address, that is, the place where we can be addressed.

Jesus responds to this condition of being filled yet unfulfilled, very busy yet unconnected, all over the place yet never at home. He wants to bring us to the place where we belong. But his call to live a spiritual life can only be heard when we are willing honestly to confess our own homeless and worrying existence and recognize its fragmenting effect on our daily life. Only then can a desire for our true home develop. It is of this desire that Jesus speaks when he says, 'Do not worry . . . . Set your hearts on his kingdom first . . . and all these other things will be given you as well.' "

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