vulnerability.makes you feel so...so...vulnerable.
my friend stacy sent me this 20-min. talk by brene brown that talks about the power of vulnerability. novel idea, this concept of vulnerability being a good thing.
take note, ya'll.
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I read a fantastic book some years back by Henri Nouwen, called The Wounded Healer. Nouwen is a Catholic priest, and the book is supposed to be about preaching. It taught me, however, about being vulnerable about our condition, especially as a woman, and most especially with people in our community with whom we hope to connect and grow.
ReplyDelete(I cant find my copy of the book right now. Here is a tid-bit I found online)
....In this context pastoral conversation is not merely a skillful use of conversational techniques to manipulate people into the Kingdom of God, but a deep human encounter in which a man is willing to put his own faith and doubt, his own hope and despair, his own light and darkness at the disposal of others who want to find a way through their confusion and touch the solid core of life. In this context preaching means more than handing over a tradition; it is rather the careful and sensitive articulation of what is happening in the community so that those who listen can say: “You say what I suspected, you express what I vaguely felt, you bring to the fore what I fearfully kept in the back of my mind. Yes, yes – you say who we are, you recognize our condition…”