This Week with Henri Nouwen

“All Jesus’ words and actions emerge from his intimate relationships with his Father.  “Do you not believe,” Jesus says, “that I am in the Father and the Father is in me?  What I say to you I do not speak of my own accord:  it is the Father, living in me, who is doing his works.  You must believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me; or at least believe it on the evidence of these works” (John 14:10-11).

Just as all Jesus’ words and actions emerge from his communion with his Father, so all our words and actions must emerge from our communion with Jesus.  “In all truth I tell you,” he says, “whoever believes in me will perform the same works as I do myself, and will perform even greater works. … Whatever you ask for in my name I will do” (John 14:12-13).  It is this profound truth that reveals the relationship between the spiritual life and the life of ministry.” – Henri Nouwen