Showing posts with label Frederick Buechner. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Frederick Buechner. Show all posts

Saturday, November 1, 2014

Take it Easy...


"Go where your best prayers take you. 
Unclench the fists of your Spirit and take it easy. 
Breathe deep of the glad air and live one day at a time. 
Know that you are precious."

Frederick Buechner

Wednesday, January 22, 2014

Saturday, September 7, 2013

The Grace of God...


"The grace of God means something like this.

Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party would not have been complete without you. Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Do not be afraid. I am with you. Nothing can ever separate us. It is for you I created the Universe. I love you. There is only one catch. Like any other gift, the gift of grace can be yours only if you will reach out and take it. And maybe being able to reach out and take it is a gift too."

Frederick Buechner

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Thursday, August 15, 2013

A Room Named Remember...


"The time is ripe for looking back over the day, the week, the year, and trying to figure out where we have come from and where we are going to, for sifting through the things we have done and the things we have left undone for a clue to who we are and who, for better or worse, we are becoming. But again and again we avoid the long thoughts. We cling to the present out of wariness of the past. And why not, after all? We get confused. We need such escape as we can find. But there is a deeper need yet, I think, and that is the need - not all the time, surely, but from time to time - to enter that still room within us all where the past lives on as a part of the present, where the dead are alive again, where we are most alive ourselves to turnings and to where our journeys have brought us. The name of the room is "Remember". The room where with patience, with charity, with quietness of heart, we remember consciously to remember the lives we have lived."

Frederick Buechner

Welcome to the Room. It is your Room.

Be grateful.

Much Loves,

Angela

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Saturday, May 25, 2013

This is Love...


"Love. It conquers the world."

Frederick Buechner

"The love for equals is a human thing. Of friend for friend, brother for brother. It is to love what is loving and lovely. The world smiles. The love for the less fortunate is a beautiful thing. The love for those who suffer, for those who are poor, the sick, the failures, the unlovely. This is compassion, and it touches the heart of the world. The love for the more fortunate is a rare thing. To love those who succeed where we fail, to rejoice without envy with those who rejoice, the love of the poor for the rich, of the black man for the white man. The world is always bewildered by its saints. And then there is the love for the enemy. Love for the one who does not love you but mocks, threatens, and inflicts pain. The tortured's love for the torturer. This is God's love. It conquers the world."

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