“Resurrection means the worst thing is
never the last thing.” (Frederick
Buechner)
Frederick Buechner moved to New York to
become a writer, only to find he couldn’t write a word. He tried to go into his
uncle’s advertising business but wasn’t tough enough. He tried to join the CIA
but didn’t have the stomach for it. He fell in love with a girl who did not
fall in love with him. He writes, “It all sounds like a kind of inane farce as
I set it down here, with every door I tried to open slammed on my foot, yet I
suppose it was a kind of pilgrim’s progress.”
It was door closing because he was
disappointed in options he wanted. It was progress because it led to him
finding, or being found by, God. And in his faith he has written words that
have inspired millions of others in their faith. But that door never could have
opened if many other doors hadn’t closed first.
-- John Ortberg in “All the Places to Go: How Will You Know?”
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