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f 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 excitements and the
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Buechner's readers'. Munroe notes that the work represents 'Buechner's first use of himself as his subject', and that, 'in many ways, from this point on, his career will be defined by using his interior life as his theme.' Munroe also suggests that the work is an early
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rom there I wandered somehow from the notion of the events of our lives – even, and perhaps especially, the most everyday events – as the alphabet through which God, of his grace, spells out his words, his meaning, to
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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.
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helps articulate what becomes his core philosophy'.
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The Book of Buechner: a journey through his writings
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