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To remember the past is to see that we are here today by grace, that we have survived as a gift.
Frederick Buechner
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Frederick Buechner
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: July 11
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Stop trying to protect, to rescue, to judge, to manage the lives around you... Remember that the lives of others are not your business. They are their business. They are God's busineess... Even your own life is not your business. It also is God's Business. Leave it to God.
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To believe in God is to give your heart to God.
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You hear as many things as you would imagine. I hear voices of people I loved once. I hear moments that took place. I hear silences.
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That's five friends, one each for Jesu's wounds, and Godric bears their mark still on what's left of him as in their time they all bore his on them. What's friendship, when all's done, but the giving and taking of wounds?
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Justice is the grammar of things. Mercy is the poetry of things.
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Being a good steward of your pain. . . . It involves being alive to your life. It involves taking the risk of being open, of reaching out, of keeping in touch with the pain as well as the joy of what happens because at no time more than at a painful time do we live out of the depths of who we are instead of out of the shallows.
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I suspect that Jesus spoke many of his parables as a kind of sad and holy joke and that that may be part of why he seemed reluctant to explain them because if you have to explain a joke, you might as well save your breath.
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Even the saddest things can become, once we have made peace with them, a source of wisdom and strength.
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For some people, going to church is going home. In a very profound sense, I would say the same thing. Home is where Christ is.
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You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but at the same time you carry them with you in your heart, your mind, your stomach, because you do not just live in a world but a world lives in you.
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Like a house in the rain, books were havens of permanence and protection from whatever it was that as a child I needed protection from.
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