“The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.”
– Frederick Buechner, from “Wishful Thinking: A Seeker’s ABC,” (1973, p.119).
“This is a call to the living,
To those who refuse to make peace with evil,
With the suffering and the waste of the world.
This is a call to the human, not the perfect,
To those who know their own prejudices,
Who have no intention of becoming prisoners of their own limitations.
This is a call to those who remember the dreams of their youth,
Who know what it means to share food and shelter,
The care of children and those who are troubled,
To reach beyond barriers of the past
Bringing people to communion.
This is a call to the never ending spirit
Of the common man, his essential decency and integrity,
His unending capacity to suffer and endure,
To face death and destruction and to rise again
And build from the ruins of life.
This is the greatest call of all
The call to a faith in people.
-Algernon D. Black
(this awesome quote is courtesy of Eric Gruen’s travel/photo blog)