Peter Kerry Powers’s Reviews > Henri Nouwen and Spiritual Polarities > Status Update

"Through the discipline of solitude we discover space for God in our innermost being. Through the discipline of community we discover a place for God in our life together. Both disciplines belong together precisely because the space within us and the space among us are the same place."

'Henri Nouwen focuses our attention on the fact that we can claim our woundedness as our "unique way to glory" and make our brokenness into 'the gateway to joy'. Quoting the great Augustine who remarked, 'In my deepest wound I see your glory and it dazzles me,' Richard Rohr can only conclude that 'Our wound is our way through.' Indeed, the path toward our eventual wholeness is precisely through our own woundednes'