Season of Feasting

Right now I'm in a season of feasting on the wisdom of scripture & other writers. (This is also code for, "I'm not frantically writing something.")

Henri Nouwen, above, describes sitting under the teaching of L'Arche community's Jean Vanier...

"Jean said that poverty is neither nice nor pleasant. Nobody truly wants to be poor. We all want to move away from poverty. And still...God loves the poor in a special way. I was deeply struck with Jean's remark: 'Jesus did not say, 'Happy are those who serve the poor,' but 'Happy are the poor.'' Being poor is what Jesus invites us to, and that is much, much harder than serving the poor. The unnoticed, unspectacular, unpraised life in solidarity with people who cannot give anything that makes us feel important is far from attractive. It is the way to poverty. Not an easy way, but God's way, the way of the cross."

-Road to Daybreak, page 84