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General Living in a World of Strangers - Nouwen
2009.10.07 23:08
The first characteristic of the spiritual life is the continuing movement from loneliness to solitude. Its second equally important characteristic is the movement by which our hostilities can be converted into hospitality. It is there that our changing relationship to ourself can be brought to fruition in an ever-changing relationship to our fellow human beings. It is there that our reaching out to our innermost being can lead to a reaching out to the many strangers whom we meet on our way through life.
estranged from their own past, culture and country, from their neighbors, friends and family, from their deepest self and their God, we witness a painful search for a hospitable place where life can be lived without fear and where community can be found. Although many strangers in this world become easily the victim of a fearful hostility, it is possible for men and women and obligatory for Christians to offer an open and hospitable space where strangers can cast off their strangeness and become our fellow human beings. The movement from hostility to hospitality is hard and full of difficulties. Our society seems to be increasingly full of fearful, defensive, aggressive people anxiously clinging to their property and inclined to look at their surrounding world with suspcion, always expecting an enemy to suddenly appear, intrude and do harm. But still --- that is our vocation: to convert hostility to hospitality, the enemy into a guest and to create the free and fearless space where brotherhood and sisterhood can be formed and fully experienced. |
좋은 말씀에 또 손수실천하는 그런 분이라고 생각하며 이런분의 글을
자주 인용하여 우리들을 일깨워주시는 한중형에 감사드립니다.
이런글들은 비록 행하기는 어려워도 마음속에 넣어 복잡한 우리의
심사를 조금은 정화시키는데 도움이 될것입니다. Thanks, 규정