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Book: The Road to Daybreak: A Spiritual Journey
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  1. Henri J.M. Nouwen _ The Road to Daybreak: A

    Here is a home for you; maybe you need us." All my desires to be useful, successful, and productive revolted.
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  2. Henri J.M. Nouwen _ The Road to Daybreak: A

    Jesus says to Nicodemus, "though the light has come into the world, people have preferred darkness to the light" {John 3:19}. In me I can feel this strange preference for the darkness. It seems as if I resist coming into the light and enjoy staying in my self-made darkness. Jesus offers the light, the truth, the life coming from above. He makes it clear that God wants to pull me away from the darkness; he wants to offer me a solid love to dwell in, a firm ground to stand on, a faithful presence to trust in. But I have to look upward instead of inward, and embrace the gifts that are given. Yet"
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  3. Henri J.M. Nouwen _ The Road to Daybreak: A

    Yet why all this resistance? Why this powerful attraction to the darkness? Jesus says, "Everybody who does wrong hates the light and avoids it, to prevent his actions from being shown up; but whoever does the truth comes out into the light, so that what he is doing may plainly appear as done in God" {John 3:20–21}. That is an answer to my question. I do often prefer my darkness to God's light. I prefer to hang on to my sinful ways because they give me some satisfaction, some sense of self, some feeling of importance. I know quite well that moving into God's light requires me to let go of all these limited pleasures and no longer to see my life as made by me, but as given by God. Living in the light means acknowledging joyfully the truth that all that is good, beautiful, and worthy of praise belongs to God. It is only a truly God-centered life that will pull me out of my depressions and give me hope. It is a clear path, but a very hard path as well."
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