mojodean's quick thoughts

Creative Ministry

Nouwen’s Creative Ministry was a book I stumbled upon at Swap.com. I didn’t expect to read it so soon after getting it and I especially didn’t expect the breadth of wisdom in this short volume.

More thoughts to come later this week, but I give you this selection to ponder over in the meantime.

[Prayer] becomes, rather, an attempt to be visible and available to each other just as we are at this very moment. What we then ask from each other is not, first of all, to solve a problem or to give a hand, but to affirm each other in the many different ways we experience life. When this takes palce, community starts to form and becomes a reality that can be celebrated as an affirmation of the multiformity of being in which we all take part.

Henri Nouwen, Creative Ministry, p 94 (1971 edition).