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Episode 759

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 another selection from “Prayer.”

Be importunate, Jesus says––not, one assumes, because you have to beat a path to God’s door before he’ll open it, but because until you beat the path maybe there’s no way of getting to your door. “Ravish my heart,” John Donne wrote. But God will not usually ravish. He will only court.

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Episode 758

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 “Prayer.”

The odd silence you fall into when something very beautiful is happening or something very good or bad…The stammer of pain at somebody else’s pain. The stammer of joy at somebody else’s joy. Whatever words or sounds you use for sighing with over your own life. These are all prayers in their way. These are all spoken not just to yourself but to something even more familiar than yourself and even more strange than the world.

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Episode 757

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 “Power of Words.”

That, I suppose, is the final mystery as well as the final power of words: that not even across great distances of time and space do they ever lose their capacity for becoming incarnate….[A] library is as holy a place as any temple is holy because through the words which are treasured in it the Word itself becomes flesh again and again and dwells among us and within us, full of grace and truth.

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Episode 756

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 “The Final Secret.”

The final secret, I think, is this: that the words “You shall love the Lord your God” become in the end less a command than a promise. And the promise is that, yes, on the weary feet of faith and the fragile wings of hope, we will come to love him at last as from the first he has loved us….And, loving him, we will at last come to love each other, too….

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Episode 755

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 “Boredom.”

To be bored is to turn down cold whatever life happens to be offering you at the moment. It is to cast a jaundiced eye at life in general including most of all your own life….To be bored is a way of making the least of things you often have a sneaking suspicion you need the most.

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Episode 754

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 “Incarnation.”

…[I]ncarnation means that all ground is holy ground because God not only made it but walked on it, ate and slept and worked and died on it. If we are saved anywhere, we are saved here…And what is saved is…our bodies and our earth themselves…Our bodies are sown perishable and raised imperishable.

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Episode 753

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 “Call to Prayer.”

Because the word that God speaks to us is always an incarnate word––a word spelled out to us not alphabetically, in syllables, but enigmatically, in events, even in the books we read and the movies we see––the chances are we will never get it just right….[But it] is both recoverable and precious beyond telling.

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Episode 752

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 “In the Midst.”

Jesus is apt to come, into the very midst of life at its most real and inescapable…at supper time, or walking along a road. This is the element that all stories about Christs’ return to life have in common….He never approached from on high, but always in the midst, in the midst of people, in the midst of real life and the questions that real life asks.

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Episode 751

Today we’re beginning a new series using selections from Listening to Your Life: Daily Meditations with Frederick Buechner, an American writer and theologian. In this episode we’re reading a selection from “Your Own Journey.”

What I propose to do now is to try listening to my life as a whole…for whatever of meaning, of holiness, of God, there may be in it to hear.…[Y]ou may in the privacy of the heart take out the album of your own life and search it for the people and places you have loved and learned from yourself…[and] through which you may have glimpsed…the sacredness of your own story.

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