We cannot live our lives constantly looking back, listening back, lest we be turned into pillars of longing and regret, but to live without listening at all is to live deaf to the fullness of the music. Sometimes we avoid listening for fear that we may hear nothing at all but the empty rattle of our own feet on the pavement. But “be not afraid, for lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world.” He says he is with us on our journeys. He says he has been with us since each of our journeys began. Listen for him. Listen to the sweet and bitter airs of your present and past for the sound of him.
Frederick Buechner in Sacred Journey
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