Adam: God’s Beloved

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Within the final year before his death in 1996, Henri Nouwen started to write an account of the death of his friend Adam, a severely handicapped young man from the L Arche Morning time Community. Within the story of Adam he found a way to describe his own understanding of the Gospel message. Adam could not speak or even move without assistance. Gripped by frequent seizures, he spent his life in obscurity. And yet, for Nouwen, he became my friend, my teacher, and my guide. It was once Adam who led Nouwen to a new understanding of his faith and what it means to be Beloved of God.

Through this story, Nouwen found a new way to tell God s story and the story of all of us human creatures, broken and yet beloved, who live in a world charged and alive with the mystery of God s love. Completed only weeks before Nouwen s own death, Adam became a final, precious gift, a fitting reflection of his own message and legacy.
Henri Nouwen completed Adam: God’s Beloved just weeks before his death in 1996. This can be a personal memoir about his friendship with Adam, a severely handicapped man he knew on the L’Arche Morning time Community in Canada. Even though Adam could not speak and was once wracked with violent seizures, Nouwen referred to as Adam “my friend, my teacher, and my guide,” and credited Adam with renewing his faith in a particularly dark period of life. Thanks to Adam, Nouwen came to take note the central questions of Christian theology in a way that transcended all statements of belief, and as an alternative found joy Within the mere gift of human existence. –Michael Joseph Gross

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