'I want you to feel that what is said of Jesus is true of you. You have to hear that you are the beloved daughters and sons of God. To hear not [in your head] but [in your body]. To hear so that your whole life can be turned around. And listen to the Scriptures: 'I have loved you with everlasting love; I have written your name on the palm of My hand for all eternity; I have moulded you in the depths of the earth and knitted you together in your mother's womb. I love you. I embrace you. You are mine and I am yours; and you belong to Me.' You have to hear that. Because if you can hear that voice that speaks to you from all eternity, to all eternity, your life will become more and more the life of the Beloved. Because that is who you are.
'And then you start discovering that all that you do here [in the world] is nurtured from the knolwedge that you are the beloved. And that is who you are. Then you start believing in this. That circle of knowledge will become bigger and bigger and bigger until it cuts right into your daily life. You will still have rejection and you will still have praise and you will still have losses; but you will no longer live as a person who is searching for his or her identity but you live it as the beloved. You will live your pain and you will live your anguish and you will live your successes and you will live your failures as the one who knows who you are.' - Henri Nouwen
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