Daily Lectio Divina: Not for the Wise

Episode 760

In this episode, we’re continuing our series using selections from Listening to Your Life: Daily Meditations with Frederick Buechner, an American writer and theologian. Today we’re reading a selection from “Not for the Wise.”

…[P]rayer is not for the wise, not for the prudent, not for the sophisticated. Instead it is for those who recognize that in face of their deepest needs, all their wisdom is quite helpless. It is for those who are willing to persist in doing something that is both childish and crucial.

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