Thursday, April 2, 2009

The main question indeed is not a question of doing, but a question of being. When we speak about (being) a living reminder of God, we are not speaking about a technical specialty which can be mastered through the aquisition of specific tools, techniques, and skills, but about a way of being which embraces the totality of life: working and resting, eating and drinking, praying and playing, acting and waiting. Before any professional skill, we need a spirituality, a way of living in the spirit by which all we are and all we do becomes a form of reminding. - From The Living Reminder by Henri J. M. Nouwen

Would a stranger know you were Christian after only observing you for an hour? Would everything you say and do remind someone of the living Christ?

This Sunday is Palm/Passion Sunday. In John's gospel, half of it is about the ministry of Jesus before this week and the second half is all about this last week of the life of Jesus.

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