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| | News > Jean Vanier | | A Nation Builder in a Broken World | | | L'Arche Canada Communications | | Today, Saturday, December 27, Jean Vanier has been named the Nation Builder of 2008 by The Globe and Mail. This award is given to a Canadian who inspires, unites, and contributes to the common good. |
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| --- A Nation Builder in a Broken World --- Jean Vanier |
This honour assumes its fullest significance when seen from the point of view of a broken world, a world in need of healing and repair.
We, indeed, all belong to a common, broken humanity. We all have wounded and vulnerable hearts. We all seek inner peace and a peaceful world in which our children may live. In this, we are all fundamentally the same. Moreover, we live in difficult times. In the last decades, life itself has become fragile, something we - to some degree - hold in our hands, and nation builders no longer carry the flags of technical progress and innovation. Our hopes reside elsewhere.
In L'Arche, we have all experienced how those who are weak and in need have the gift of touching our hearts and bringing us together in mutual belonging, whatever our religion or culture. All who have experienced this understand that it is not strength and power but vulnerability that will bring us together and build a nation.
In a society that shuns weakness and glorifies strength, Jean Vanier gives us a new vision of vulnerability, a vision on which we can build and through which we can create new ways to live together and discover greater compassion. | | | | Related documents |
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