“I discovered that if you really keep your eyes peeled to it and your ears open, if you really pay attention to it ,even such a limited and limiting life as the one I was living on rupert mountain opened up onto extraordinary vistas. Taking your children to school and kissing your wife goodbye. Eating lunch with a friend . Trying to do a decent days work . Hearing the rain patter against the window. There is no event so commonplace but that God is present within it , always hiddenly , always leaving you room to recognize him or not to recognize him, but all the more fascinatingly because of that, all the more compellingly and hauntingly…… If I were called upon to state in a few words the essence of everything I was trying to say both as a novelist and a preacher it would be something like this: Listen to your life . See it for the fathomless mystery that it is . In the boredom and pain of it no less than in the excitement and gladness; touch taste smell your way to the holy and hidden heart of it because in the last analysis all moments are key moments , and life itself is grace. ” Frederick Buechner .
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