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Can You Drink the Cup?

By: Henri J. M. Nouwen
Narrated by: Dan Anderson O.F.M.
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Nouwen uses the cup as a metaphor to articulate the basic postures of the spiritual life: holding, lifting and drinking. The cup is a powerful image in our human experience. We use cups in our celebrations of a variety of events. Nouwen reminds us that we also use the cup as a symbolic vessel—for sorrow, joy, blessings, salvation.

“Drinking our cup to the bottom is seen as the expression of the full freedom of the sons and daughters of God,” Nouwen writes. His goal is to make the question Jesus posed to James and John pierce our hearts so that a personal answer can emerge from it. The way we answer Jesus’ question, “Can you drink the cup…?” has the power to radically change our lives.
©1996 Ave Maria Press, Inc. (P)2006 St. Anthony Messenger Press
Christian Living Christianity Spirituality
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This book makes you want to try

Thoughtful and inspirational this books reflections on what it is to live life fully might challenge where you are and give you new insights of where you want to be

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This book is very life giving for me.

Drinking our cup is not simply adapting ourselves to a bad situation and trying to use it as well as we can. Drinking our cup is a hopeful, courageous, and self-confident way of living. It is standing in the world with head erect, solidly rooted in the knowledge of who we are, facing the reality that surrounds us and responding to it from our hearts.

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