You are the Beloved

Daily Meditations for Spiritual Living

Henri J. M. Nouwen

• Publisher: Hodder Faith
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN:
  9781473632554
• eBook ISBN:
  9781473632547
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Christian Denominations

'We are the Beloved. We are intimately loved long before our parents, teachers, spouses, children and friends loved or wounded us. That's the truth of our lives. That's the truth I want you to claim for yourself. That's the truth spoken by the voice that says, "You are my Beloved."' - Henri Nouwen, Life of the Beloved Henri Nouwen, priest, professor and writer, devoted much of his later ministry to emphasising the singular concept of our identity as the Beloved of God. In an interview, he said that he believed the central moment in Jesus' public ministry to be his baptism in the Jordan, when Jesus heard the affirmation, 'You are my beloved son on whom my favour rests.' 'That is the core experience of Jesus, ' Nouwen writes. 'He is reminded in a deep, deep way of who he is... I think his whole life is continually claiming that identity in the midst of everything.' You Are Beloved is a daily devotional created from the very best of Nouwen's writings, paired with daily Scripture readings, that reveals our identity as children of God, and which encourages us to live out that truth in our daily lives. Nouwen is at once refreshingly accessible, unafraid to wrestle with challenging questions, and above all an encouraging and sympathetic voice along the way.

DAY BY DAY CITATIONS

JANUARY 1, Here and Now, pp. 16–17; JANUARY 2, Beyond the Mirror, pp. 56–58; JANUARY 3, Beloved: Henri Nouwen in Conversation, p. 21; JANUARY 4, Home Tonight, p. 50; JANUARY 5, The Inner Voice of Love, p. 101; JANUARY 6, Life of the Beloved, pp. 78–79; JANUARY 7, Compassion, pp. 11, 13, 16; JANUARY 8, The Return of the Prodigal Son, pp. 100–101; JANUARY 9, The Road to Daybreak, pp. 73–74; JANUARY 10, Life of the Beloved, pp. 27–28; JANUARY 11, The Return of the Prodigal Son, pp. 38, 117; JANUARY 12, The Return of the Prodigal Son, p. 38; JANUARY 13, Life of the Beloved, p. 49; JANUARY 14, The Return of the Prodigal Son, p. 100; JANUARY 15, The Way of the Heart, pp. 22–23; JANUARY 16, Clowning in Rome, pp. 28–29; JANUARY 17, Intimacy, pp. 15–16; JANUARY 18, Letters to Marc About Jesus, p. 69; JANUARY 19, Reaching Out, p. 106; JANUARY 20, Here and Now, pp. 22–23; JANUARY 21, Here and Now, pp. 95–96; JANUARY 22, The Genesee Diary, pp. 116–117; JANUARY 23, The Living Reminder, p. 28; JANUARY 24, Making All Things New, pp. 56–57; JANUARY 25, Lifesigns, pp. 21, 22; JANUARY 26, Gracias!, pp. 49–50; JANUARY 27, Making All Things New, pp. 35–36; JANUARY 28, Making All Things New, pp. 41–43; JANUARY 29, Life of the Beloved, p. 39; JANUARY 30, Unpublished letter, 1983; JANUARY 31, With Open Hands, p. 61; FEBRUARY 1, In the Name of Jesus, pp. 15–16; FEBRUARY 2, Lifesigns, pp. 36–37; FEBRUARY 3, The Inner Voice of Love, p. 59; FEBRUARY 4, The Return of the Prodigal Son, pp. 119–120; FEBRUARY 5, Life of the Beloved, pp. 72–73; FEBRUARY 6, Reaching Out, pp. 16–17; FEBRUARY 7, The Inner Voice of Love, pp. 36–37; FEBRUARY 8, Reaching Out, p. 22; FEBRUARY 9, The Wounded Healer, p. 90; FEBRUARY 10, Reaching Out, pp. 27–28; FEBRUARY 11, Letters to Marc About Jesus, p. 54; FEBRUARY 12, Love, Henri, p. 94; FEBRUARY 13, Letters to Marc About Jesus, p. 55; FEBRUARY 14, Letters to Marc About Jesus, p. 69; FEBRUARY 15, Lifesigns, pp. 47–48; FEBRUARY 16, Lifesigns, pp. 30, 38, 39; FEBRUARY 17, Reaching Out, p. 46; FEBRUARY 18, Reaching Out, p. 51; FEBRUARY 19, Reaching Out, pp. 51, 72; FEBRUARY 20, Clowning in Rome, p. 42; FEBRUARY 21, With Burning Hearts, pp. 74–75; FEBRUARY 22, Clowning in Rome, pp. 46–47; FEBRUARY 23, Here and Now, p. 20; FEBRUARY 24, Reaching Out, p. 56; FEBRUARY 25, Reaching Out, pp. 20–21; FEBRUARY 26, Life of the Beloved, p. 30; FEBRUARY 27, Here and Now, pp. 67–68; FEBRUARY 28, excerpt from a recording of Henri Nouwen’s talk “Belovedness” at the National Prayer Breakfast, Ottawa, 1991 (unpublished); FEBRUARY 29, A Cry for Mercy, pp. 103–104; MARCH 1, Letters to Marc About Jesus, pp. 5–6; MARCH 2, Making All Things New, pp. 45–47; MARCH 3, Making All Things New, pp. 57–59; MARCH 4, Letters to Marc About Jesus, pp. 26, 51; MARCH 5, The Road to Daybreak, pp. 174–175; MARCH 6, The Inner Voice of Love, p. 88; MARCH 7, The Road to Daybreak, p. 156; MARCH 8, Sabbatical Journey, p. 165; MARCH 9, Sabbatical Journey, pp. 166–167; MARCH 10, Finding My Way Home, pp. 117–119; MARCH 11, Out of Solitude, pp. 55–56; MARCH 12, Out of Solitude, p. 59; MARCH 13, Letters to Marc About Jesus, pp. 41–43; MARCH 14, Letters to Marc About Jesus, p. 43; MARCH 15, Making All Things New, pp. 50–51; MARCH 16, Clowning in Rome, p. 25; MARCH 17, Clowning in Rome, pp. 28–29; MARCH 18, Unpublished letter, 1988; MARCH 19, The Road to Daybreak, pp. 67–68; MARCH 20, Love, Henri, pp. 255–256; MARCH 21, The Road to Daybreak, pp. 157–158; MARCH 22, A Cry for Mercy, p. 56; MARCH 23, The Living Reminder, pp. 38–39; MARCH 24, Finding My Way Home, p. 49; MARCH 25, Letters to Marc About Jesus, p. 39; MARCH 26, Letters to Marc About Jesus, p. 61; MARCH 27, Show Me the Way, pp. 61–62; MARCH 28, Finding My Way Home, pp. 127–128; MARCH 29, Finding My Way Home, pp. 130–132; MARCH 30, Finding My Way Home, pp. 138–139; MARCH 31, A Cry for Mercy, pp. 74–75; APRIL 1, Letters to Marc About Jesus, p. 58; APRIL 2, Our Greatest Gift, pp. 100–101; APRIL 3, Compassion, p. 16; APRIL 4, A Cry for Mercy, p. 85; APRIL 5, excerpt from the lecture, “Deepening a Prayer Life,” given at Scarritt-Bennett Center, February 8, 1991 (unpublished); APRIL 6, Lifesigns, p. 39; APRIL 7, The Return of the Prodigal Son, p. 101; APRIL 8, Lifesigns, pp. 43–44; APRIL 9, The Inner Voice of Love, p. 72; APRIL 10, The Inner Voice of Love, p. 97; APRIL 11, The Living Reminder, pp. 22, 25; APRIL 12, A Cry for Mercy, pp. 23, 102; APRIL 13, Letters to Marc About Jesus, p. 52; APRIL 14, Letters to Marc About Jesus, pp. 52–53; APRIL 15, Reaching Out, p. 76; APRIL 16, Reaching Out, p. 40 and The Road to Daybreak, p. 184; APRIL 17, Letters to Marc About Jesus, p. 68; APRIL 18, The Way of the Heart, pp. 76–77; APRIL 19, The Way of the Heart, p. 90; APRIL 20...

Table of contents

• Cover
• About the Author
• Title Page
• Contents
• Dedication
• Introduction
• January
• February
• March
• April
• May
• June
• July
• August
• September
• October
• November
• December
• Acknowledgments
• Day by Day Citations
• Works Cited and Permissions
• Footnotes
• Copyright