Do you remember? (2) Frederick Buechner
“The time is ripe for looking back over the day, the week, the year, and
trying to figure out where we have come from and where we are going to,
for sifting through the things we have done and the things we have left
undone for a clue to who we are and who, for better or worse, we are
becoming. (...) But there is a
deeper need yet, I think, and that is the need—not all the time, surely,
but from time to time—to enter that still room within us all where the
past lives on as a part of the present, where the dead are alive again,
where we are most alive ourselves to turnings and to where our journeys
have brought us. The name of the room is Remember—the room where with
patience, with charity, with quietness of heart, we remember consciously
to remember the lives we have lived.”
Frederick Buechner, A Room Called Remember: Uncollected Pieces
Image by Henri Giovanetti
Frederick Buechner, A Room Called Remember: Uncollected Pieces
Image by Henri Giovanetti
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