“Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid.”

— Frederick Buechner

Listening to Your Life: Daily Meditations with Frederick Buechner (1992)
Source: Beyond Words: Daily Readings in the ABC's of Faith

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Poet, novelist, short story writer, theologian 1926

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