A wonderful encapsulation of Jesus as I'm coming to know him: "Jesus did not say he was the answer; he said he was the way. He did not ask us to succeed, but to be faithful. He did not promise that our beliefs would prove true; he promised to be with us to the end of the world, and beyond."
The Gospels compel us to both wonder and wander. It's almost as if wondering won't come without an inclination to wander. Fiction and the act of writing share elements of this wandering, this discovery along unknown paths. What a gentle invitation in these opening strains of Advent.
Thank you for this. Your reading catches the Gospels’ quiet rigor—faith as movement, not mastery—and your link between wonder and wandering feels exactly right. Advent begins there, in the willingness to be led rather than certain. I’m grateful you hear that note in what I wrote.
A wonderful encapsulation of Jesus as I'm coming to know him: "Jesus did not say he was the answer; he said he was the way. He did not ask us to succeed, but to be faithful. He did not promise that our beliefs would prove true; he promised to be with us to the end of the world, and beyond."
The Gospels compel us to both wonder and wander. It's almost as if wondering won't come without an inclination to wander. Fiction and the act of writing share elements of this wandering, this discovery along unknown paths. What a gentle invitation in these opening strains of Advent.
Thank you, William. Season's greetings.
Thank you for this. Your reading catches the Gospels’ quiet rigor—faith as movement, not mastery—and your link between wonder and wandering feels exactly right. Advent begins there, in the willingness to be led rather than certain. I’m grateful you hear that note in what I wrote.