June Twenty Seventeen

June Twenty- Seventeen 

Turn around and believe that the good news that we are loved is better than we ever dared hope, and that to believe in that good news, to live out of it and toward it, to be in love with that good news, is of all glad things in this world the gladdest thing of all. Amen, and come Lord Jesus. -Frederick Buechner, The Clown in the Belfry: Writings on Faith and Fiction 

We encounter God in the ordinariness of life, not in the search for spiritual highs and extraordinary, mystical experiences but in our simple presence in life. – Brennan Manning 

If we are to love our neighbors, before doing anything else we must see our neighbors. With our imagination as well as our eyes, that is to say like artists, we must see not just their faces but the life behind and within their faces. Here it is love that is the frame we see them in.  -Frederick Buechner, Whistling in the Dark: A Doubter's Dictionary 

The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn't have been complete without you. -Frederick Buechner

Gentlest God, clasp me in your arms. 

Show me your love for the least of me, 

and inspire me in turn to such love 

so that you become all my will, 

all my love, and the fullness of my joy. 

-Julian of Norwich-  1342-1416

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us. -St. Augustine 

The secret is Christ in me, not me in a different set of circumstances. -Elisabeth Elliot 

Always believe something beautiful is about to happen. –Aubrey Moskal, Elite Distance Runner 

We must be careful with our lives, for Christ's sake, because it would seem that they are the only lives we are going to have in this puzzling and perilous world, and so they are very precious and what we do with them matters enormously. -Frederick Buechner  

Life is grace. Sleep is forgiveness. The night absolves. Darkness wipes the slate clean, not spotless to be sure, but clean enough for another day's chalking.- Frederick Buechner, The Alphabet of Grace 

There are no little things. “Little things,” so called, are the hinges of the universe. –Fanny Fern

The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly without fear for newer and richer experiences. –Eleanor Roosevelt

Let nothing upset you. 

Let nothing frighten you. 

Everything is changing. 

God alone is changeless. 

Patience attains the goal. 

Who has God lacks nothing. 

God alone fills every need. 

--Teresa of Avila