Yesterday I asked the BVCC Family to take a little time each day this week to pray while meditating on the prayer found in Ephesians 3:16-19. To compliment that experience, I also wanted to share with you the following quote from Henri Nouwen:

To say with all that we have, think, feel, and are, "God exists" is the most world-shattering statement that a human being can make... Because when God exists, all that is flows from God... However, as soon as I say "God exists," my existence no longer can remain in the center, because the essence of the knowledge of God reveals my own existence is deriving its total being from God's. That is the true conversion experience. I no longer let the knowledge of my existence be the center from which I derive, project, deduct, or intuit the existence of God; I suddenly or slowly find my own existence revealed to me in and through the knowledge of God. Then it becomes real for me that I can love myself and my neighbor only because God has loved me first... The life-converting experience is not the discovery that I have choices to make that determine the way I live out my existence but the answer that my existence itself is not in the center. Once I "know" God, that is, once I experience God's love as the love in which all my human experiences are anchored, I can only desire one thing: to be in that love. "Being" anywhere else, then, is shown to be illusory and eventually lethal. (The Only Necessary Thing, p. 69)

Today may you know the love of God that surpasses all knowledge!