Listen, Speak

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 as 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 Now & Then

God spoke to Balaam through his ass... I believe God still speaks through asses today...So if God should choose to speak through you - you needn't think too highly of yourself.
Rich Mullins Lufkin, Texas August 1997