Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
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It is our humanity, not our pseudo-perfection, that allows us to receive & pass on what Xians call grace—the goodness that flows into our lives from beyond. This is Nouwen’s 'wounded healer'—one who mediates healing, not despite personal wounds but precisely because of them. Rohr

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Quoted by@RizomaSchool Being marked for wisdom, a mixed bag. Great suffering, for example, a common, cosmic, fast track. One of my greatest gifts is the capacity of age to both recognize and bless the transfigurative alchemy of failure, misery, disarray and hurt of young adults being divinely shaped.