Quotations this week are from Life of the Beloved: Spiritual Living in a Secular World, by Henri Nouwen.

““You are the Beloved,” and I hope that you can hear these words as spoken to you with all the tenderness and force that love can hold… Every time you listen with great attentiveness to the voice that calls you the Beloved, you will discover within yourself a desire to hear that voice longer and more deeply. It is like discovering a well in the desert. Once you have touched wet ground, you want to dig deeper.”

–Henri Nouwen, Life of the Beloved