A Crazy, Holy Grace (2017)
The Healing Power of Pain and Memory
Book Description
In this essential collection of essays, including one never before published, Frederick Buechner meditates on the healing power of pain and memory.
Beginning with meditations on the stewardship of pain and the ramifications of his father’s tragic descent to suicide, Buechner reflects powerfully upon the importance of memory in the midst of suffering: the necessity of remembering, the magic of memory, the struggle of memory, and the hope of memory.
With additional pithy deliberations on secrets, tears, peace, dying, and resurrection, this anthology of essays and reflections is essential reading for all who are seeking meaning, all who carry pain, and all who cherish the glory and complexity of the story of life:
The final secret, I think, is this: that the words “You shall love the Lord your God” become in the end less a command than a promise. And the promise is that, yes, on the weary feet of faith and the fragile wings of hope, we will come to love him at last as from the first he loved us—loved us even in the wilderness, especially in the wilderness, because he has been in the wilderness with us. He has been in the wilderness for us. He has been acquainted with our grief. And, loving him, we will come at last to love each other too so that, in the end, the name taped on every door will be the name of the one we love.
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