I will sing of your
steadfast love, O Lord, forever;
With my mouth I will
proclaim your faithfullness to all generations.
I declare that your
steadfast love is established forever;
Your faithfulness is
as firm as the heavens.
Psalm 89:1-2
Divine faithfulness is at the core of our witness. By our words, but most of all by our lives,
we are to reveal God's faithfulness to the world. The world is not interested in faithfulness,
because faithfulness does not help in the acquisition of success, popularity
and power. But when Jesus call us to
love one another as he has loved us, he calls us to faithful relationships, not
based on the pragmatic concerns of the world, but on the knowledge of God's
everlasting love.
Faithfulness, obviously, does not mean sticking it out
together to the bitter end. That is no
reflection of God's love. Faithfulness means that every decision we make in our
lives together is guided by the deep awareness that we are called to be living
signs of God's faithful presence among us.
And this requires an attentiveness to one another that goes beyond any
formal obligation.
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Henri J.M. Nouwen
Wishing all a Merry Christmas as we begin a new year as a
community that lives out God's faithfulness.
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