If we are to love our neighbors, before doing anything else we must see our neighbors. With our imagination as well as our eyes, that is to say like artists, we must see not just their faces but the life behind and within their faces. Here it is love that is the frame we see them in.
Frederick BuechnerEven the saddest things can become, once we have made peace with them, a source of wisdom and strength.
Frederick BuechnerTo be bored is to turn a cold shoulder to engage all that God is and has for you in the moment.
Frederick BuechnerNo words come easily to my lips. I think ultimately - what I like to think is that I'm in some sense hearing the mystery itself.
Frederick BuechnerListen. Your life is happening. You are happening. Think back on your journey. The music of your life.
Frederick Buechner