April 17, 2012 Tuesday: 2nd Week of Easter (B)
Growing Into Our True Freedom
True freedom is the freedom of the children of God. To reach that freedom requires a lifelong
discipline since so much in our world militates against it. The political, economic, social, and even
religious powers surrounding us all want to keep us in bondage so that we will
obey their commands and be dependent on their rewards.
But the spiritual truth that leads to freedom is the truth
that we belong not to the world but to God, whose beloved children we are. By living lives in which we keep returning to
that truth in word and deed, we will gradually grow into our true freedom.
-Fr. Henri Nouwen
