Whatever you do with your life-whatever you end up achieving or not achieving-the great gift you have in you to give to the world is the gift of who you alone are; your way of seeing things, and saying things, and feeling about things, that is like nobody else’s. If so much as a single one of you were missing, there would be an empty place at the great feast of life that nobody else in all creation could fill.
Jesus is apt to come, into the very midst of life at its most real and inescapable moments. Not in a blaze of unearthly light, not in the midst of a … - Frederick Buechner
Jesus is apt to come, into the very midst of life at its most real and inescapable moments. Not in a blaze of unearthly light, not in the midst of a …
- Frederick Buechner
One life on this earth is all that we get, whether it is enough or not enough, and the obvious conclusion would seem to be that at the very least we … - Frederick Buechner
One life on this earth is all that we get, whether it is enough or not enough, and the obvious conclusion would seem to be that at the very least we …
Pay attention to the things that bring a tear to your eye or a lump in your throat because they are signs that the holy is drawing near. - Frederick Buechner
Pay attention to the things that bring a tear to your eye or a lump in your throat because they are signs that the holy is drawing near.
Resurrection means that the worst thing is never the last thing. - Frederick Buechner
Resurrection means that the worst thing is never the last thing.
The world says, The more you take, the more you have. Christ says, the more you give, the more you are. - Frederick Buechner
The world says, The more you take, the more you have. Christ says, the more you give, the more you are.
In the entire history of the universe, let alone in your own history, there has never been another day just like today, and there will never be anoth… - Frederick Buechner
In the entire history of the universe, let alone in your own history, there has never been another day just like today, and there will never be anoth…
We find by losing. We hold fast by letting go. We become something new by ceasing to be something old. - Frederick Buechner
We find by losing. We hold fast by letting go. We become something new by ceasing to be something old.
Lord, catch me off guard today. Surprise me with some moment of beauty or pain so that at least for the moment, I may be startled into seeing that yo… - Frederick Buechner
Lord, catch me off guard today. Surprise me with some moment of beauty or pain so that at least for the moment, I may be startled into seeing that yo…
To confess your sins to God is not to tell [God] anything [God] doesn't already know. Until you confess them, however, they are the abyss between you… - Frederick Buechner
To confess your sins to God is not to tell [God] anything [God] doesn't already know. Until you confess them, however, they are the abyss between you…
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