{"id":104702,"date":"2021-08-26T06:52:35","date_gmt":"2021-08-26T10:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=104702"},"modified":"2021-08-26T06:56:05","modified_gmt":"2021-08-26T10:56:05","slug":"thursday-food-for-thought-from-henri-nouwen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=104702","title":{"rendered":"Thursday food for Thought from Henri Nouwen"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>As long as we continue to live as if we are what we do, what we have, and what other people think about us, we will be filled with judgments, opinions, evaluations, and condemnations. We will remain addicted to the need to put people and things in their &#8220;right&#8221; place. To the degree that we can embrace the truth that our identity is not rooted in our success, power, or popularity, but in God\u2019s infinite love, to that degree can we let go of our need to judge.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8211;Henri Nouwen, Here and Now (New York: Crossroads, 1994), pp.70-71<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SaveTheDate?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SaveTheDate<\/a>: 9\/25\/21 for Celebrating Henri Nouwen, 25 Years Since his Passing-Moving from Hostility to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Hospitality?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Hospitality<\/a>, a program w\/Robert Jonas, Ed.D. Watch for details <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/itHq8qegFR\">https:\/\/t.co\/itHq8qegFR<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PsychToday?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@PsychToday<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/YaleDivSchool?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@YaleDivSchool<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HenriNouwen?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@HenriNouwen<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HarvardDivinity?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@HarvardDivinity<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AlbertusSocial?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@AlbertusSocial<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/spirituality?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#spirituality<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LVQtH2BzGl\">pic.twitter.com\/LVQtH2BzGl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; @MercyByTheSea (@Mercy_ByTheSea) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Mercy_ByTheSea\/status\/1429855297036816388?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 23, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As long as we continue to live as if we are what we do, what we have, and what other people think about us, we will be filled with judgments, opinions, evaluations, and condemnations. We will remain addicted to the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=104702\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175,92,34,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-books","category-theology","category-theology-scripture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=104702"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104706,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104702\/revisions\/104706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=104702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=104702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=104702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}