so this sickness thing isn't going quite as i planned. i had a horrid pain in my chest when i woke this morning and i have felt lethargic all day. suck.
i got good books today though. i finished one this morning and am reading another. this is a reading break. i get really weird if i don't disengage from reading every so often.
i like frederick buechner. he asks the terrifying questions and then makes them beautiful in their honesty.
one quote before i continue:
Imagine a man invested with every form of human power that you can think of: the destructive power of a Hitler, the analytic power of a Freud, the creative power of a Shakespeare, the economic power of a J. Paul Getty, the moral and philanthropic power of a Schweitzer, and so on. Then try to imagine what he could do and what he could not do. He could conquer the world very likely, but could he satisfy the deepest longing of his own soul or your soul or mine? Could he satisfy the deepest longing of just one single human being out of all the millions that we can imagine his having conquered, and by "the deepest longing" I mean the longing for love, for deep peace, for meaning?
The Power of God and the Power of Man - Frederick Buechner
i got good books today though. i finished one this morning and am reading another. this is a reading break. i get really weird if i don't disengage from reading every so often.
i like frederick buechner. he asks the terrifying questions and then makes them beautiful in their honesty.
one quote before i continue:
Imagine a man invested with every form of human power that you can think of: the destructive power of a Hitler, the analytic power of a Freud, the creative power of a Shakespeare, the economic power of a J. Paul Getty, the moral and philanthropic power of a Schweitzer, and so on. Then try to imagine what he could do and what he could not do. He could conquer the world very likely, but could he satisfy the deepest longing of his own soul or your soul or mine? Could he satisfy the deepest longing of just one single human being out of all the millions that we can imagine his having conquered, and by "the deepest longing" I mean the longing for love, for deep peace, for meaning?
The Power of God and the Power of Man - Frederick Buechner
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