Excerpt from Listening to Your Life by Frederick Buechner

Our Richest Treasure - July 12

‘We must help each other’s burdens. We must pray for each other. We must nourish each other, weep each other, rejoice with each other. Sometimes we must learn to let each other alone. In short, we must love each other. We must never forget that.’

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Excerpt from Listening to Your Life by Frederick Buechner

The Word - June 20

‘The Bible is usually very universal and makes you want to see something - some image to imagine it by. “The light shines in the darkness,” John says, and maybe you see an agonizing burst of light with the darkness folding back like petals, like hands. But the imagery of John is based rather on sound than on sight. It is a Word you hear breaking through the unimaginable silence - a creating word, a word that calls forth, a word that stirs life and is life because it is God’s word, John says, and has God in it as your words have you in them, have in them your breath and spirit and tell of who you are. Light and dark, the visual, occur in space, but sound, this Word spoken, occurs in time and starts time going. “Let there be” the Word comes, and then there is, Creation is. Something is where before there was nothing and the morning stars sing together and all the Sons of God shout for joy because sequence has begun, time has begun, a story has begun.’