"During the seven-month stay in a Trappist monastery,
Henri Nouwen had a unique opportunity to explore crucial issues
of the spiritual life and discover ......"

"This is an extraordinary account of a man seeking inner peace
and total commitment to God.... a fine portrait of cloistered life,
a beautifully written account of one man's soul-searching."

Henri J.M. Nouwen is a Catholic priest who has taught at
several theological institutes and universities, including
Notre Dame, Yale and Havard.

Here is more by John Eudes,

"....the first thing to realize is that you are the glory of God ..
...we live because we share God's breath, God's life, God's glory.
The question is not so much, 'How to live for the glory of God? but
"How to live who we are, how to make true our deepest self?'....
'I am the glory of God.' Make that thought the center of your meditation
so that it slowly becomes not only a thought but a living reality. ...
You are the place where God chose to dwell. ...the spiritual life is
nothing more or less than to allow that space to exist where God can dwell,
to create the space where his glory can manifest itself. ...
Once you start realizing in this very intimate and personal way that you
indeed  are the glory of God, then everything is different, then your life
takes a decisive turn. Then, for instance, your passions, attachments,
which seem so real, more real than God, show their illusory nature to you
and sort of dwindle away."....

이웃사랑의 실천은 우선 가족간의 화목이겠지요.
눈에 안 보이는 하느님을 사랑한다는 것은 땅위에서 가장 가까운 가족을 비롯하여
주위의 모든 만나는 사람들에게 사랑을 베푸는 것이라고 생각됩니다.
조금씩이라도 상대를 배려하고 양보하며 정을 주는데서 이루어질 것 같습니다.
말보다는 어렵지만 그치지 말고 노력하면 모자르는 것은 그분께서 채워주시리라고 믿습니다.
그러는 가운데 하느님은 늘 나의 마음 속에서 편안히 계실 것입니다.

앞서 올리신 poem, 'Go Home' 과 이 글을 읽고 묵상하였습니다.

김성심 선배님,

선배님의 귀중한 코멘트 감사드립니다.

Merry Christmas to you and your family and
all the alumni and their families !!

이한중, 이석주 올림

4 Candles shining,
One for You, sun-bae-nim,
One for Sukjoo-nim,
One for Our Friends on our Site,
The Last One for Him.

                             From Anselm

Dr. Bang,
Merry Christmas to you and your family !
And one candle for you and your family !

The four candles represent the four weeks
of Advent before Christmas, one for each week of Advent.

I didn't know what 4 candles meant.
I feel like I'm sitting at Bible Class again,
Not Myungdong Cathedral where Anselm was born,
but here on our site.

Thanks, sun-bae-nim!
Still learning and willing to.