Living in a community with very wounded people, I came to see that I had lived most of my life as a tightrope artist trying to walk on a high, thin cable from one tower to the other, always waiting for the applause when I had not fallen off and broken my leg.
Henri NouwenGod is a God of the present. God is always in the moment, be that moment hard or easy, joyful and painful.
Henri NouwenOur brokenness has no other beauty but the beauty that comes from the compassion that surrounds it.
Henri Nouwen