One life on this earth is all that we get, whether it is enough or not…

Frederick Buechner
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One life on this earth is all that we get, whether it is enough or not enough, and the obvious conclusion would seem to be that at the very least we are fools if we do not live it as fully and bravely and beautifully as we can. ✨ FaceBook post byFrederick Buechner from Feb 20, 2017
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Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage. ✨ Frederick Buechner (1973). Wishful thinking: a theological ABC., Harp … ▶
Maybe at the heart of all our traveling is the dream of someday, somehow, getting Home. ✨ Frederick Buechner (2009). Beyond Words: Daily Readings in the ABC's of Faith, p.393, Zondervan
The magic of words is that they have power to do more than convey meaning; not only do they have the power to make things clear, they make things happen. ✨ FaceBook post byFrederick Buechner from Mar … ▶
It is not the objective proof of God's existence that we want but the experience of God's presence. That is the miracle we are really after, and that is also, I think, the miracle that we really get.
The birth of Jesus made possible not just a new way of understanding life but a new way of living it. ✨ Frederick Buechner, Lee Boltin (1974). The life of Jesus, Gramercy

One life on this earth is all that we get, whether it is enough or not enough, and the obvious conclusion would seem to be that at the very least we are fools if we do not live it as fully and bravely and beautifully as we can. ✨ FaceBook post byFrederick Buechner from Feb 20, 2017

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