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By Frederick Buechner
Past phrases n (1.) phrases or names that time to the world of puzzle and intensity that lies past our traditional event. (2.) the truth that's past even the ability of past phrases to express, and that may be recognized in simple terms through experiencing it for your self. "A be aware an afternoon to maintain the demons at bay." this is often how Frederick Buechner loves to describe this witty and incisive dictionary. an everyday devotional from one in every of modern day maximum religious writers, past phrases bargains 366 entries from Buechner's 3 alphabet books, Wishful pondering, abnormal Treasures, and Whistling at midnight, together with a brand new advent and nineteen new entries. supplying definitions of either sacred and usual phrases, in addition to biblical characters, Buechner unabashedly brings his clean viewpoint to phrases, techniques, and characters we inspiration we understood. it is a nice creation to Buechner's paintings in addition to a library staple for these already good versed in his writing. it's Buechner at his top. no matter if readers locate themselves tearful from a deeply relocating perception or guffawing out loud at an unforeseen flip of word, they'll continuously consider uplifted, illuminated, and enchanted by means of the knowledge of Frederick Buechner.
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It leaves you always aching with longing not so much for more of the same as for whatever it is, deep within and far beyond both it and yourself, that makes it beautiful. “The beauty of holiness” is how the Psalms name it (29:2), and “As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee” (42:1) is the way they describe the ache and the longing. DAY 34 < 38 F r e d e r i c k B u e c h n e r BELIEVING DAY 35 = P repositions can be very eloquent. A man is “in” architecture or a woman is “in” teaching, we say, meaning that is what they do weekdays and how they make enough money to enjoy themselves the rest of the time.
He does not try to explain them away as God’s will or God’s judgment or God’s method of testing our spiritual fiber. He simply tells the Philippians that in spite of them—even in the thick of them—they are to keep in constant touch with the One who unimaginably transcends the worst things and also unimaginably transcends the best. “In everything,” Paul says, they are to keep on praying. Come hell or high water, they are to keep on asking, keep on thanking, above all keep on making themselves known.
To be consistent with the atheistic creed, the atheist can say no more than that to beat a child to death is wrong with a small w. Wrong because it is cruel, ugly, inhuman, pointless, illegal, and makes the gorge rise. But what is apt to rise along with the gorge is the suspicion that it is wrong also with a capital W—the suspicion that the law that has been broken here is not just a human law, but a law as immutable as the law of gravity, one by which even if there were no children in the universe and no grown-ups to beat them, it would be written into the very fabric of reality itself that such an act is wrong.