Our theme for 2025 is: Listening
In our 4th session:
An at home retreat - from The Way of the Heart by Henri Nouwen
This month is our Wildcard, which is an at home retreat. Drawing on Henri Nouwen’s lovely little book, The Way of the Heart, you will receive weekly offerings for reflection. The book is available through the Roscoe Library at St Francis Theological College, or online through Amazon Kindle. You may even have this little gem already, as it is a much-loved book.
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If I were asked how to find God, I would say, Learn to listen. Listen to the song of the universe in the call of birds, the rustle of trees, the crash and heave of the waves. Listen to the poetry of prayer, the music of the Psalms. Listen deeply to those you love and who love you. Listen to the words of God in the Torah and hear them speak to you. Listen to the debates of the Sages through the centuries as they tried to hear the texts’ intimations and inflections.
Don’t worry about how you or others look. The world of appearances is a false world of masks, disguises, and concealments. Listening is not easy. I confess I find it formidably hard. But listening alone bridges the abyss between soul and soul, self and other, I and the Divine.
https://rabbisacks.org/covenant-conversation/bereishit/the-art-of-listening/
“The first service one owes to others in a community involves listening to them. Just as our love for God begins with listening to God’s Word, the beginning of love for others is learning to listen to them.”
Dietrich Bonhoeffer in Life Together