You Are the Beloved: Daily Meditations for Spiritual Living by Henri Nouwen; compiled and edited by Gabrielle Earnshaw (Convergent)

Published on October 31, 2017; 416 pages; ISBN 9781101906378

You Are the Beloved is a daily devotional featuring the best of Nouwen’s writing from previously published works.

Nouwen devoted much of his later ministry to emphasizing the singular concept of our identity as the Beloved of God. In an interview, he said that he believed the central moment in Jesus's public ministry to be his baptism in the Jordan, when Jesus heard the affirmation, "You are my beloved son on whom my favor rests." "That is the core experience of Jesus," Nouwen writes. "He is reminded in a deep, deep way of who he is. . . . I think his whole life is continually claiming that identity in the midst of everything."
You Are Beloved is intended to empower readers to claim this truth in their own lives.