A Splendid Adventure
This writing comes from "A Sacred Journey" by Frederick Buechner. As I was reading it I realized it stated better than I could the reason I began my blog. "What I propose to do now is to try listening to my life as a whole, or at least to certain key moments of the first half of my life thus far, for whatever of meaning, of holiness, of God, there may be to hear. My assumption is that the story of any one of us is in some measure the story of us all. For the reader, I suppose, it is like looking through someone else's photograph album. What holds you, if nothing else, is the possibility that somewhere among all those shots of people you never knew and places you never saw, you may come across something or someone you recognize. In fact - far more curious things have happened - even in a stranger's album, there is always the possibility that as the pages flip by, on one of them you may even catch a glimpse of yourself. Even if both of those fail, there is still a third possibility which is perhaps the happiest of them all, and that is that once I have put away my album for good, you may in the privacy of the heart take out the album of your own life and search it for the people and places you have loved and learned from yourself, and for those moments in the past - many of them half forgotten - through which you glimpsed, however dimly and fleetingly, the sacredness of your own journey."
7 comments:
You are certainly off to a beautiful start...
Love ya
Nanie
it's so you!
Oh my gosh, I want to climb into this.
Oh my, that is pretty! Saw this on Janet's sidebar, so came over for a look. Your work is all very lovely.
Ready indeed! Been looking back at your posts - loving what I see!
love your colors Mary...love you too!!!
Love these colors too! You and I are on the same page - waiting for some warmth and brightness outside. And oh the cat issue made me laugh at least...what else can you do? Blessings...
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