Devotions from Henri Nouwen’s book, The Inner Voice of Love  Jesus became flesh for us so we could encounter Him in the flesh and receive His love in the flesh. But sometimes our shame and our guilt prevent and block His presence in our lives. We may not feel fully at home in our bodies…

Devotions from Henri Nouwen’s book The Inner Voice of Love Today’s devotions is about the road to freedom and the importance of staying on that road. Sometimes we seem to think we are losing ground and going backwards and our healing is sporadic. But when we experience a set back or regress, all is not…

Devotions from Henri Houwen’s book, The Inner Voice of Love Today’s devotion is on loneliness and the importance of trying to find the source of this feeling. I think Henri dealt with this a lot in his life.  We are all inclined to either run away from our loneliness or to dwell in it. If…

Devotions from Henri Nouwen’s book, The Inner voice of Love Today’s devotion is about telling our story and it is important that we look at the pains of our past realizing that it has led us to our new life now. But if the new life is not fully ours, then our memories will continue…

Devotions from Henri Nouwen’s book, The Inner Voice of Love, When we come to live in our bodies as a true expression of who we are, we can be present to others. As our body is an integral part of ourselves, we can trust it and listen to its language. That gives us confidence to…

Devotions from Henri Nouwen’s book, The Inner Voice of Love Today’s devotional is on acknowledging our powerlessness. We all have those places in our lives that we are powerless. We cannot heal ourselves and every time we try we get discouraged. But we have to start simply by admitting that we can’t cure ourselves in…

Devotions by Henri Nouwen , The Inner Voice of Love Today’s devotion is on how to live through pain we may have in our lives.  It could be the pain of not receiving what we need most, a place of emptiness where we feel the absence of love, etc. It is hard back to go…

Devotions from Henri Nouwen’s book, The Inner Voice of Love To live a disciplined life is to live in such a way that we only want to be where God is with us. The more deeply we live our spiritual life, the easier it will be to discern the difference between living with God and…

Devotions from Henri Nouwen’s book, The Inner Voice of Love Henri speaks of entering the new country where the Lord dwells there in greater intimacy. It’s like we reach a point in our lives where we are not truly at peace in our old country any more.  He struggled, just as we do, when we…

Devotions from Henri Nouwen, The Inner Voice of Love God’s love is permanent and we can claim that love as a gift from Him and also give that love to others. When others stop loving us, we don’t have to stop loving them. Maybe on a human level, changes might be necessary, but on the…