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by Matt Conner on December 22, 2007 
Just wanted to share perhaps my favorite quote pertaining to the birth of Jesus:
“If holiness and the awful power and majesty of God were present in this least auspicious of all events, this birth of a peasant’s child, then there is no place or time so lowly and earthbound but that holiness can be present there too. And this means that we are never safe, that there is no place where we can hide from God, no place where we are safe from his power to break in two and re-create the human heart because it is just where he seems most helpless that he is most strong, and just where we least expect him that he comes most fully.” -Frederick Buechner, The Hungering Dark
Merry Christmas to all of you who read and/or post. And I hope that we all find him most fully this season.
Matt Conner is a pastor and journalist who has interviewed nearly everyone who has ever played music. That isn't entirely true.
5 Comments
2004 days ago
Thanks, Matt. Few can say it better than Buechner.
2004 days ago
When I found that you guys love Buechner too, I knew that I would love this blog. I haven’t heard anyone speak of him since college. Thanks for the quote. That’s a great one.
2004 days ago
To think that God can make himself so close can be both encouraging and frightening at once. Thanks for the reminder.
2003 days ago
Matt,
Thank you for sharing that. I have just in the last couple of years gotten into Buechner thanks to Mike Card and Buddy Greene.
I copied this quote and emailed it to several friends for Christmas. I will find the book it came from and check it out.
Blessings!
Jeff Taylor
2000 days ago
Great quote, Matt, thanks for bringing it to us. Leave it to Buechner to get to the terrifying beautiful heart of the matter.
Every Christmas we read all the related entries from his lexicon trilogy (now compiled as “Beyond Words”). It’s especially fun for us to read each of the character sketches of the people who show up in the Christmas narrative.
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