“In our world of loneliness and despair, there is an enormous need for men and women who know the heart of God, a heart that forgives, cares, reaches out and wants to heal. In that heart there is no suspicion, no vindictiveness, no resentment, and not a tinge of hatred. It is a heart that wants only to give love and receive love in response. It is a heart that suffers immensely because it sees the magnitude of human pain and the great resistance to trusting the God who wants to offer consolation and hope.

The Christian leader of the future is the one who truly knows the heart of God as it has become flesh, “a heart of flesh,” in Jesus. Knowing God’s heart means consistently, radically, and very concretely to announce and reveal that God is love and only love… but very few people know that they are loved without any conditions or limits.”

-In the Name of Jesus by Henri Nouwen

Lord, allow me to know Your heart so I can reach out to the ones at HPU who are broken, wounded, and searching. Give me Your eyes and guide me to those people, Lord. Let my heart be after Yours always and allow me to love others with Your love. Allow me to bring hope and new life to everywhere I go.




(a few of my College Life co-leaders)

We love because he first loved us. [1 John 4:19]