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Thursday, November 17, 2022

Frederick Buechner - Listening to Yourself - 366 excerpts from his works (Nov. 17)

 pages 303-304 titled "The Kingdom"

If we only had eyes to see and ears to hear

and wits to understand, we would know that

the Kingdom of God in the sense of holiness,

goodness, beauty is as close as breathing

and is crying out to be born both within

ourselves and within the world;

we would know that the kingdom of God

is what we all of us hunger for above all

other things even when we don't know its

name or realize that it's what we're

starving to death for.  The Kingdom of God

is where our best dreams come from and our

truest prayers.  We glimpse it at those

moments when we find ourselves being better

than we are and wiser than we know.  We

catch sight of it when at some moment of

crisis a strength seems to come to us

that is greater than our own strength.

The Kingdom of God is where we belong.

It is home, and whether we realize it

or not, I think we are all of us homesick

for it.

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