Janet Devries

“I don't know what it means to love God. Really, I'm not all that good at it. But I think one of the things it means is, just as in the case of loving anybody else, you stop and watch and wait. Listen for God. Stop and watch and wait for him. To love God means to pay attention. Be mindful. Be open to the possibility that God is with you in ways that, unless you have your eyes open, you may never glimpse. The speaks words that, unless you have your ears open, you may never hear. Draw near to him as best you can.”
― Frederick Buechner, The Remarkable Ordinary: How to Stop, Look, and Listen to Life

“Lord, such fire
from a match you never lit.”
― Ilya Kaminsky, Deaf Republic

“What’s lost is nothing to what’s found, and all the death that ever was, set next to life, would scarcely fill a cup.”
― Frederick Buechner, A Crazy, Holy Grace: The Healing Power of Pain and Memory

“So, art is saying Stop. It helps us to stop by putting a frame around something and makes us see it in a way we would never have seen it under the normal circumstances of living, as so many of us do, on sort of automatic pilot, going through the world without really seeing much of anything.”
― Frederick Buechner, The Remarkable Ordinary: How to Stop, Look, and Listen to Life