The Jesus who is the one whom we search for even when we do not know that we are searching and hide from even when we do not know that we are hiding.
Frederick BuechnerA miracle is when the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. A miracle is when one plus one equals a thousand.
Frederick BuechnerAll other days have either disappeared into darkness and oblivion or not yet emerged from it. Today is the only day there is.
Frederick BuechnerHe [Jesus] speaks in parables, and though we have approached these parables reverentially all these many years and have heard them expounded as grave and reverent vehicles of holy truth, I suspect that many if not all of them were originally not grave at all but were antic, comic, often more than just a little shocking.
Frederick Buechner