NONSENSE OF OUR DAYS

Glynn Young wrote concerning Frederick Buechner, In “The Magnificent Defeat,” Frederick Buechner wrote this 20 years before anyone thought of desktops and laptops, mobile computing and the Internet:

“All the absurd little meetings, decisions, inner skirmishes that go to make up our days. It all adds up to very little, and yet it adds up to very much. Our days are full of nonsense, and yet not, because it is precisely into the nonsense of our days that God speaks to us words of great significance – not words that are written in the stars but words that are written into the raw stuff and nonsense of our days, which are not nonsense just because God speaks into the midst of them. And the words that he says, to each of us differently, are to be brave…be merciful…feed my lambs…press on toward the goal.”

“He said to him the third time, “Simon, son of John, do you love me?” Peter was grieved because he said to him the third time, “Do you love me?” and he said to him, “Lord, you know everything; you know that I love you.” Jesus said to him, “Feed my sheep.” Jesus