Frederick Buechner and the gladness in the gospel
Last night I all but fell asleep trying to read Trusting God by Jerry Bridges, drifting in and out of prayers and thoughts on the couch, before shuffling off to bed, so I didn’t manage much else. But I thought I would share this video. I was having a conversation with someone recently, to the effect that while growing up in a Christian home and always knowing Jesus is a great blessing, I am fascinated to hear the stories of how God got the attention of people who had no such background. So here is Frederick Buechner, telling of some of the “stirrings in the wings of my life”.
Justin Moffatt posted a quote from Buechner on facebook yesterday, that has in it echoes of this "great laughter".
Turn around and believe that the good news that we are loved is better than we ever dared hope, and that to believe in that good news, to live out of it and toward it, to be in love with that good news, is of all glad things in this world the gladdest thing of all. ~ Frederick Buechner
(There is a long version and short version merged together, and I am not always getting the long version, so if all you get is the short version click through to youtube. H/T The Rabbit Room)