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| Original Title: | The Genesee Diary: Report from a Trappist Monastery |
| ISBN: | 0232521433 (ISBN13: 9780232521436) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Setting: | United States of America |
Henri J.M. Nouwen
Paperback | Pages: 222 pages Rating: 4.32 | 1057 Users | 79 Reviews
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The Genesee Diary: Report from a Trappist Monastery is Henri Nouwen's journal of his seven-month stay in the Abbey of the Genesee in upstate New York. His reflections on daily life with the Trappists are funny, wise, and often profound--resembling Kathleen Norris's The Cloister Walk, but a bit less thematically structured and more down to earth. Nouwen's goal is simply to record what it's like to pass the time in a cloistered community. He spends part of his stay there reading Robert Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, which helps awaken a hunger for a richer experience of life that he subsequently satisfies by learning to slow down. In his first week at the monastery, Nouwen writes, "I have so many ideas I want to write about, so many books I want to read, so many skills I want to learn--motorcycle maintenance is now one of them--and so many things I want to say to others now or later, that I do not SEE that God is all around me and that I am always trying to see what is ahead, overlooking him who is so close." Then, looking forward to being planted in one place among the Trappists, he writes, "Maybe I need to get stuck," to learn to see God. He does, and he does. --Michael Joseph Gross
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| Title | : | The Genesee Diary: Report from a Trappist Monastery |
| Author | : | Henri J.M. Nouwen |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 222 pages |
| Published | : | September 1995 by Darton, Longman & Todd (first published 1976) |
| Categories | : | Religion. Spirituality. Nonfiction. Autobiography. Memoir. Biography. Theology. Christianity |
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Ratings: 4.32 From 1057 Users | 79 ReviewsCommentary Of Books The Genesee Diary: Report from a Trappist Monastery
A strikingly honest and interesting journey through Nouwens seven months in a Trappist monastery. He shares of his struggles and joys with contemplation, prayer, and simple living. This quote, while not a summary of the book, was really encouraging to me:The basis of community is not primarily our ideas, feelings, and emotions about each other but our common search for God. When we keep our minds and hearts directed toward God, we will come more fully together.I read this while on vacation andI really enjoyed this book. I've never read anything by Nouwen but if this is anything like his other works I would love to read more. This is Nouwen's diary from living in a monastery for 7 months. Nouwen's analysis of his own thought life is challenging and by far the most prominent take away. I would highly recommend this book to anyone.
This diary offered some profound thoughts on prayer, contemplation, the struggles of ministry, sacred space, worship, and many other areas of the Christian life.
This is a wonderful story of life in a Trappist monastery. Although only living there for seven months, Henri is brutally honest in his writing and faces his feelings of inadequacy, anger, confusion, and moodiness. It is refreshing to experience his struggles and how to become a better person. He learns a lot and this book is full of good advice and uplifting quotes and verse. Keep it simple- that seems to be the building block of their lives.My favorite line is "God is in the gentle breeze with
Excellent SpiritualiryFather Nouwen learned a lot.from his at the happiest monastery. His thoughts were much more reasonable than those from Thomas.Merron.
Pleasant surprise! Reading Nouwens honest reflections awakened me to similar reflections and encouraged me to form deeper spiritual practices.
Interesting.
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