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We celebrated our 50th wedding anniversary in 2008. Our children helped us celebrate with an all expense paid all arranged vacation In Hawaii.
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
In his autobiographical book, The Sacred Journey, Frederick Buechner writes: “If God speaks to us at all in this world, if God speaks anywhere, it is into our personal lives that he speaks. Someone we love dies, say. Some unforeseen act of kindness or cruelty touches the heart or makes the blood run cold. We fail a friend, or a friend fails us, and we are appalled at the capacity we all of us have for estranging the very people in our lives we need the most…”
I was especially drawn to his words: “We fail a friend, or a friend fails us, and we are appalled at the capacity we all of us have for estranging the very people in our lives we need the most…”
The words remind me of an old song, “You always hurt the one you love, the one you shouldn’t hurt at all. You always take the sweetest rose and crush it until the petals fall. You always break the kindest heart with a hasty word you can’t recall.”
My question is WHY? Why do we do this?
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