With Burning Hearts

I started this Henri Nouwen book this morning and it was so good I didn't put it down until I finished it.  It was sooooo good.  I probably underlined HALF the book.  Jesus is talking to the two on the road to Emnaus and they are describing their grief and sense of loss in the death of Jesus.  Here's a brief quote: "Yes, we must mourn our losses.  We cannot talk or act them away, but we can shed tears ocver them and allow ourselves to grieve deeply.  To greive is to allow our losses to tear apart feelings of security and safety and lead us to the painful truth fo our brokenness.  Our grief makes us experience the abyss of our own life in which nothing is settled, clear, or obvious, but everything constantly shifting and changing....  But in the midst of all this pain, there is a strange shocking, yet very surprising voice.  It is the voice of the one who says: 'Blessed are those who mourn; they shall be comforted.'  That's the unexpected news:  there is a blessing hidden in our grief.  Not those who comfort are blessed, but those who mourn!  Somehow, in the midst of our mourning, the first steps of the dance take place.  Somehow, the cries that well up from our losses belong to our songs of gratitude."  I highly recommend the book.  It would preach.