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April 28, 2006
Another one in the same vein
My sister sent me this quote last week.
"Anxiety and Fear are what we know best in this fantastic century of
ours. Wars and rumors of wars. From civilization itself to what seemed the
most unalterable values of the past, everything is threatened or already in
ruins. We have heard so much tragic news that when the news is good we
cannot hear it. But the proclamation of Easter Day is that all is well. And as a
Christian, I say this not with the easy optimism of one who has never known a time when all was not well but as one who has faced the cross with all its
obscenity as well as in all its glory, who has known one way or another what it
is like to live separated from God. In the end, his will, not ours, is
done. Love is the victor. Death is not the end. The end is life. His life
and our lives through him, in him. Existence has greater depths of beauty,
mystery, and benediction than the wildest visionary has ever dared to
dream.
Christ our Lord has risen."
-Frederick Buechner, The Magnificent Defeat
Posted by tacyjane at April 28, 2006 03:19 PM
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