11.17.2004

"If there is a need for a new morality it is the morality which teaches us the fellowship of the weak as a human possibility. Love, then, is not a clinging to each other in the fear of an oncoming disaster but an encounter in a freedom that allows for the creation of new life. This love cannot be proved. We can only be invited to it and find it to be true by an engaging response. As long as we experience the Christian life as a life which puts restrictions on our freedom of expression, we have perverted and inverted its essence." - Henri Nouwen, Intimacy

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