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petenewlove's review
4.0
The third part of this book lost some of its steam. But the first two parts (Gutturals and Sibilants) are amongst the best things I have ever read. Ever. I will read and re-read these parts over and over again. They are amazingly beautiful in their depictions of yearning and the ways in which grace fills our lives.
nauminous's review
3.0
I get why some really loved this.
For me, though, I just couldn't connect with the dreamy prose.
Not giving up on Buechner, currently reading another Buechner title and have another in the read queue.
For me, though, I just couldn't connect with the dreamy prose.
Not giving up on Buechner, currently reading another Buechner title and have another in the read queue.
bethanybeyondthejordan's review
3.0
The writing is stream-of-consciousness (I'm so linear!) and has a gift for run-on sentences. But I enjoy his perspective.
dudulima's review
4.0
"joy—it must happen now in this unlikely place as always in unlikely places: the road to Damascus, Emmaus, Muscadine, stuffy roomful of frightened Jews smelling of fish."
"I am thinking of grace. I am thinking of the power beyond all power, the power that holds all things in manifestation, and I am thinking of this power as ultimately a Christ-making power, which is to say a power that makes Christs, which is to say a power that works through the drab and hubbub of our lives to make Christs of us before we’re done or else, for our sakes, graciously to destroy us. In neither case, needless to say, is the process to be thought of as painless."
"Fathers and mothers, brothers and cousins and uncles, teachers, lovers, friends, all these invisibles manifest themselves in my visibleness. Their voices speak in me, and I catch myself sometimes speaking in their voices."
"He calls me to be this rather than that; he calls me to be here rather than there; he calls me to be now rather than then. He calls me to be of all things me as this morning when the alarm went off or the children came in or your dream woke you, he called you to be of all things you."
"All the unspoken words if you do not speak them today will never be spoken. The people, the ones you love and the ones who bore you to death, all the life you have in you to live with them, if you do not live it with them today will never be lived."
"I am a congenital believer, a helpless hungerer after the marvelous as solace and adventure and escape."
"If there were no room for doubt, there would be no room for me."
prosa poética cristã. não se preocupa tanto com a exatidão teológica, mais com a beleza que a Verdade traz. bem bem bom. leitura difícil em inglês, não esperava.
"I am thinking of grace. I am thinking of the power beyond all power, the power that holds all things in manifestation, and I am thinking of this power as ultimately a Christ-making power, which is to say a power that makes Christs, which is to say a power that works through the drab and hubbub of our lives to make Christs of us before we’re done or else, for our sakes, graciously to destroy us. In neither case, needless to say, is the process to be thought of as painless."
"Fathers and mothers, brothers and cousins and uncles, teachers, lovers, friends, all these invisibles manifest themselves in my visibleness. Their voices speak in me, and I catch myself sometimes speaking in their voices."
"He calls me to be this rather than that; he calls me to be here rather than there; he calls me to be now rather than then. He calls me to be of all things me as this morning when the alarm went off or the children came in or your dream woke you, he called you to be of all things you."
"All the unspoken words if you do not speak them today will never be spoken. The people, the ones you love and the ones who bore you to death, all the life you have in you to live with them, if you do not live it with them today will never be lived."
"I am a congenital believer, a helpless hungerer after the marvelous as solace and adventure and escape."
"If there were no room for doubt, there would be no room for me."
prosa poética cristã. não se preocupa tanto com a exatidão teológica, mais com a beleza que a Verdade traz. bem bem bom. leitura difícil em inglês, não esperava.
dean_22's review
reflective
relaxing
slow-paced
4.25
A stream of consciousness type of work. Nothing memorable about the text itself other than a few sections. The money is in the feeling you get while reading it.
mikepage7176's review
2.0
Stream of consciousness tediousness. There is a beauty in how he captures the divine in everyday life as we walk through the morning. But generally he's just writing nearly incoherent thoughts out onto the page. It makes little sense. He even quotes pages of his own work. Sometimes he's talking about something and you realize that's not even happening. He's just bringing us into what is about to happen.
This was my first exposure to Buechner. Could barely get through it.
This was my first exposure to Buechner. Could barely get through it.
susannaopal's review
5.0
I love Buechner, even when I have to re-read him a few times to get the meaning of what he is saying, I am in debt for how much I enjoy his writing! An excellent and thought provoking read!
davehershey's review
4.0
Buechner writes in a stream of consciousness style, going through his day from waking up to seeing his kids off to school to meeting a friend for lunch. Throughout these mundane, everyday things life is seen as a gift of grace. What I appreciate most about Buechner is that he does not come right out and say things in black and white, but drifts in his writing from place to place, sometimes with what appears no overarching point. This writing style reflects our lives and in this style itself, as in our life, we find the grace of God. Not everyone will enjoy this style of writing, but for those who do, reading the words themselves is a welcome pleasure.
shrikepilgrim's review
2.0
This book has produced such a tremendous apathy in my heart that I can hardly even be bothered to write down why I didn't like it. Every single one of these 112 pages was a struggle. I give an additional star solely for the author's good intentions.