The movement from power through strength to
power through powerlessness is our call.
As fearful, anxious, insecure, and wounded people, we are tempted
constantly to grab a little bit of power that the world around us offers, left
and right, here and there, now and then.
These bits of power make us little puppets jerked up and down on strings
until we are dead. But insofar as we
dare to be baptized in powerlessness, always moving toward the poor who do not
have such power, we are plunged right into the heart of God’s endless
mercy. We are free to reenter our world
with the same divine power with which Jesus came, and we are able to walk in
the valley of darkness and tears, unceasingly in communion with God, with our
heads erect, confidently standing under the cross of our life.
--Henri Nouwen, Finding My Way Home
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