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The trouble with steeling yourself against the harshness of reality is that the same steel that secures your life against being destroyed secures your life also against being opened up and transformed by the holy power

The trouble with steeling yourself against the harshness of reality is that the same steel that secures your life against being destroyed secures your life also against being opened up and transformed by the holy power that life itself comes from. You can survive on your own. You can grow strong on your own. You can even prevail on your own. But you cannot become human on your own.

Frederick Buechner
Strong, Reality, Steel
Frederick Buechner (2009). “Listening to Your Life: Daily Meditations with Frederick Buechne”, p.22, Harper Collins

She was right that reality can be harsh and that you shut your eyes to it only at your peril because if you do not face up to the enemy in all his dark power, then the enemy will come up from behind some dark day and destoy you while you are facing the other way.

Frederick Buechner
Eye, Dark, Reality
Frederick Buechner (2017). “A Crazy, Holy Grace: The Healing Power of Pain and Memory”, p.21, Zondervan

I don't know that it makes any difference whether it's at this time or a hundred years before or a hundred years later. I think always it's a matter of simply listen[ing] to what is going on around you and in your own experience. Try to understand what's happening, or if not to understand it, at least to appreciate the reality of it.

Frederick Buechner
Thinking, Reality, Differences
Interview with Bob Abernethy, www.pbs.org. April 5, 2006.

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