Listening to Your Life
Daily Meditations with Frederick Buechner
Chapter One
Sound of God's Voice • May 20
I Believe That we know much more about God than we admit that we know, than perhaps we
altogether know that we know. God speaks to us, I would say, much more often than we
realize or than we choose to realize. Before the sun sets every evening, he speaks to each of us
in an intensely personal and unmistakable way. His message is not written out in starlight, which
in the long run would make no difference; rather it is written out for each of us in the humdrum,
helter-skelter events of each day; it is a message that in the long run might just make all the
difference.
Who knows what he will say to me today or to you today or into the midst of what kind of
unlikely moment he will choose to say it. Not knowing is what makes today a holy mystery as
every day is a holy mystery. But I believe that there are some things that by and large God is
always saying to each of us. Each of us, for instance, carries around inside himself, I believe, a
certain emptiness - a sense that something is missing, a restlessness, the deep feeling that
somehow all is not right inside his skin. Ps ... read full excerpt from Listening to Your Life ebook
