![]() Vanier wrote many books, and I have read many of them over these past thirteen years of being the mother of a child with a disability. Glimmers of light for those who had eyes to see. Rather, he saw these communities as visible manifestations of what God looks like, what love looks like. He wasn’t an idealistic dreamer who thought that the “success” of L’Arche was dependent upon everyone living in intentional loving communities. L’Arche is an organization in which people with intellectual disabilities and typical people lived side by side in community, and Vanier wrote about the ways in which these spaces of belonging and friendship (and sadness and suffering and arguing and forgiving and loving and laughing) stand as signs. ![]() ![]() ![]() “Love is patient.” This simple statement has been on my heart and mind this past week after I learned of the death of Jean Vanier, the founder of the L’Arche communities. Jean Vanier and Abuse: Is His Work Discredited? ![]()
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