With Open Hands by Henri J. M. Nouwen

Author:Henri J. M. Nouwen [Nouwen, Henri J. M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ave Maria Press
Published: 2006-03-31T22:00:00+00:00

Hope means to keep living

amid desperation

and to keep humming

in the darkness.

Hope is knowing that there is love,

it is trust in tomorrow

it is falling asleep

and waking again

when the sun rises.

In the midst of a gale at sea,

it is to discover land.

In the eyes of another

it is to see that you are understood….

As long as there is still hope

There will also be prayer….

And you will be held

in God's hands.

Thus, every prayer of petition becomes a prayer of thanksgiving and praise as well, precisely because it is a prayer of hope. In the hopeful prayer of petition, we thank God for God's promise and we praise God for God's faithfulness.

Our numerous requests simply become the concrete way of saying that we trust in the fullness of God's goodness. Whenever we pray with hope, we put our lives in the hands of God. Fear and anxiety fade away, and everything we are given and everything we are deprived of is nothing but a finger pointing out the direction of God's hidden promise that one day we shall taste in full.

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