“If God is love, then how vulnerable God must be.” “ We seek security in life, but truly how insecure if really is…” You come out from behind the barriers of fear that you have erected around your heart.” “If you discover that somebody really loves you, listens to you, then you begin to change. What I could do was send her to visit another mother who’d had a child a year previously with similar disablities to the child she was going to have. There are times when you must not say nice words. I saw immediately that I couldn’t say a word to her. She was in tears and a bit hysterical–this was her first baby and she knew that the child had a disability. She was forty years old and eight months pregnant. “Recently a father asked me to go and see his wife. We all have protective systems designed to prevent people from seeing who we are.” So I create mechanisms of defense and compulsion to protect myself. “We all have a deep fear of our own weaknesses because my weakness is what makes it possible for someone else to crush me. Here’s some critical lesson’s I’ve learned Vanier: Vanier had also inspired another one of my favorite authors, Henri Nouwen. Listen to an interview with Vanier on the Podcast, OnBeing. Catholic innovator and philosopher, Jean Vanier, founder of the L’Arch and Faith and Light communities Today, a spiritual and intellectual hero of mine has passed away.
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