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Title: Reaching Out by Henri Nouwen ISBN: 0-385-23682-4 Publisher: Image Books Pub. Date: 05 August, 1986 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.56 (9 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A lifeline for the weary Christian - refreshing and renewing
Comment:
This is my second taste of Nouwen, and it has been even better than the first ("The Inner Voice of Love"). This book is a valuable component of the amazing turnaround of my depression.
Some Christians say that when you find yourself burnt out and needy, you should go back to the basics. They offer no new solutions, and point you back to daily quiet times and church attendance and service. But here is a book that offers a completely new and refreshing look at God and life. It offers a chance to slow down, to deal with your own heart and soul before rushing to "perform" as a Christian should. Nouwen shows that only when we take time to love and hear ourselves, to become comfortable with who we are and be content with solitute, only after those steps are taken can we reach out to others in true love. We simply must love ourselves and deal with our hurts and needs before we can help and learn from others.
We often reach out to others when we are hurting. We are afraid to deal alone with our needs. We are desperately seeking someone or something to drown out our own voice, to give us new answers. We watch television, listen to music, read books, socialize. This book points us back into ourselves. For we are indeed God's children, and the Spirit is in us. When we learn to be still, we can offer that very stillness and peace to others. We can commune with God in prayer. We can break the illusions of business, of our circumstance ruling us. And we can once again be in touch with ourselves, others, and our God.
This is a life-changing, pain-shattering book. In these pages, we meet the Healer, the God who loves us infinitely and takes the time to fill us up and heal our wounds. We meet the God who gives us the peace to live a centered life, not a chaotic one.
Rating: 5
Summary: Practical philosopy, engaging theology
Comment: As a Christian for 40 some years, I have searched for ways to more effectively live out my devotion to God. Nouwin's book Reaching Out came into my life after 40 some years in a legalistic cultish church and about 3 years in a more grace-filled church where I made some major moral mistakes.
Nouwin's perceptive and astute words described my experience so well. "...we constantly find ourselves clinging to people, books, events, experiences, projects and plans, secretly hoping that this time it will be different. We keep experimenting with many types of anesthetics, we keep finding "psychic numbing" often more agreeable than the sharpening of our inner sensitivities."
His prompting to turn loneliness into solitude where I can possible hear myself and God has been like water in the desert to me. I look forward to the time usually each day where I set the timer and try to empty my mind of noise and hopefully "descend with the mind into the heart"
Rating: 5
Summary: "Reaching Out" - This book has changed my life!
Comment: Henri J. M. Nouwen opened the path for me to understand how I interact and react to God, Jesus, the Holy Spirit, and the things and people of our world. For many years I have worshipped God. I never realized that I was doing so on my terms, not His. My interaction with other people was based on my need for control, not the needs of others even though I considered myself a caring person. Henri Nouwen opened my eyes to damage I was doing to others and myself. "Reaching Out" changed my attitudes, understanding, and heart.
If you are serious about walking in Jesus's steps, try "Reaching Out". Your walk with God will never be the same.
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Title: The Wounded Healer by Henri Nouwen ISBN: 0385148038 Publisher: Image Books Pub. Date: 02 February, 1979 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: Life of the Beloved: Spiritual Living in a Secular World by Henri J. M. Nouwen ISBN: 0824519868 Publisher: Crossroad/Herder & Herder Pub. Date: October, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Inner Voice of Love by HENRI NOUWEN ISBN: 0385483481 Publisher: Image Books Pub. Date: 19 January, 1999 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: Return of the Prodigal Son by Henri Nouwen ISBN: 0385473079 Publisher: Image Books Pub. Date: 01 March, 1994 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Making All Things New - Reissue by Henri J. M. Nouwen ISBN: 006066326X Publisher: Harper SanFrancisco Pub. Date: 03 June, 1981 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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