One last post from Message in the Stars, but I do recommend you purchase this nice little book of sermons and soak it in:
“Who knows what he will say to me today or to you today or into the midst of what kind of unlikely moment he will choose to say it. Not knowing is what makes today a holy mystery as every day is a holy mystery. But I believe that there are some things that by and large God is always saying to each of us. Each of us, for instance, carries around inside himself, I believe, a certain emptiness — a sense that something is missing, a restlessness, the deep feeling that somehow all is not right inside his skin….Part of the inner world of everyone is this sense of emptiness, unease, incompleteness, and I believe that this in itself is a word from God, that this is the sound that God’s voice makes in a world that has explained him away.”
“….Our days are full of nonsense, and yet not, because it is precisely into the nonsense of our days that God speaks to us words of great significance — not words that are written in the stars but words that are written into the raw stuff and nonsense of our days, which are not nonsense just because God speaks into the midst of them. And that the words that he says, to each of us differently, are be brave…be merciful…feed my lambs…press on toward the goal.“
Frederick Buechner, Message in the Stars, The Magnificent Defeat
For reflection:
1. Do you feel that emptiness, unease, and incompleteness that Buechner describes? What do you think about the possibility that those feelings could actually be a “message from God”?
2. Try paying attention to the “stuff and nonsense” of today. Where, how, and what do you hear God saying to you?