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psprigg__97's review
4.0
Jesus sought solitude. If we are to pursue his example, so should we. It will inform us and fill us with his love and security.
billyjepma's review
5.0
“As long as we are occupied and preoccupied with our desire to do good but are not able to feel the crying need of those who suffer, our help remains hanging somewhere between our minds and our hands and does not descend into the heart where we can care. But in solitude, our heart can slowly take off its many protective devices, and can grow so wide and deep that nothing nothing human is strange to it.”
There is more wisdom, power, and urgency in this 60-page booklet than most books of thrice that length could ever hope to capture. Nouwen’s meditations springboard off of scripture and carry the audience toward a gentle, yet firm, call to action. Not toward the action of doing more, but of caring more. Of not rejecting solitude and, indeed, loneliness, but reveling in the opportunities and power that can be found there.
Nouwen’s insights are as timely and meaningful as they could ever be. This is absolutely essential reading, and I hope to revisit it often, for God knows I will need to be reminded of and pushed toward the wisdom contained in its pages.
laurakisthardt's review
5.0
Small book, collection of three sermons Nouwen preached at Battell Chapel at Yale. Similar themes to The Living Reminder.
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