Abbreviated notes from Sister Sue Mosteller's talk at the Henri Nouwen 'Way of the Heart Conference' - June 9th, 2016
- My life is one shaped by relationships
- To learn to forgive is essential
- The power of the gospel is Jesus vulnerability
- My gift is to be powerless, to suffer with, to lay down your life for others
- Jesus and the widow of Nain. He so shared her vulnerability and anguish, he loved deeply, to be able to share loss, he felt her pain out of his gut
- Jesus isn't scandalized by our weakness and failure
- Finding home on the way home
- The daily news is filled with images of homelessness. 60 million refugees with no home
- Need to find others on their way home
- The journey of Jesus home
- The moment of his baptism, to be among us and not over us - ' you are my beloved son'
- That voice penetrated deep into his gut
- 'I am unconditionally loved' is what Jesus heard from his Father at his baptism and the nourishment of those words sustain him throughout his ministry
- Jesus lead into the wilderness to be confirmed by those words
- Every temptation is resisted by the One who called Jesus 'beloved'
- Jesus and the blind man - do you want to be healed?
- Jesus doesn't have to perform, he is the beloved and out of that belovedness he loves others...
- He wants us all to be forgiven
- He was so patient with the disciples who never get it
- Our mission Jesus spells out plainly, is to find its resource in these words: 'As the Father has loved me, so I love you'
- You will receive power to love others
- The parable of the prodigal son assures us: "I will bless you when you leave and when you come home"
- The Father allows us to leave
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| with Jean Vanier |
- Our journey home - a sacred centre in each one of us, to be truly who we are
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