Love changes us (Walter Mosley / Henri Nouwen)

We are not trapped or locked up in these bones.
No, no. We are free to change.
 And love changes us. 

--Walter Mosley

    A new beginning! We must learn to live each day, each hour, yes, each minute as a new beginning, as a unique opportunity to make everything new. Imagine that we could live each moment as a moment pregnant with new life. Imagine that we could live each day as a day full of promises. Imagine that we could walk through the new year always listening to a voice saying to us: “I have a gift for you and can't wait for you to see it!” Imagine. 

   We must open our minds and our hearts to the voice that resounds through the valleys and hills of our life saying: “Let me show you where I live among my people. My name is God-with-you.” 

--Henri Nouwen 

Image source: Artemisia Gentileschi, Christ and the Samaritan Woman (1637), https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cristo_e_la_samaritana_al_pozzo_%281637%29_-_Artemisia_Gentileschi.jpg
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