KEYWORDS: Last, First, Focus, Intentional
Author Henri Nouwen's mentor, Jean Vanier—who founded the L'Arch Communities for those with mental and physically handicaps and disabilities—gave this benediction blessing over Nouwen at his ordination service:
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May all your expectations be frustrated. May all your plans be thwarted. May all your desires be withered into nothingness That you may experience the powerlessness and poverty of a child and sing and dance in the love of God the Father, the Son, and the Spirit. |
