13 THE SACRED STORIES OF OUR LIVES

THE SACRED STORIES OF OUR LIVES

Like the Hebrew alphabet, the alphabet of grace has no vowels, and in that sense [God’s] words to us are always veiled, subtle, cryptic, so that it is left to us to delve their meaning, to fill in the vowels, for ourselves by means of all the faith and imagination we can muster. God speaks to us in such a way. Out of the shadowy street comes a cry for help. We must learn to listen to the cock-crows and hammering and tick-tock of our lives for the holy and elusive word that is spoken to us out of their depths.

                                                                 —Frederick Buechner, The Alphabet of Grace

Taken from Lectio Divina the Sacred Art by Christine Valters Painter