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"Hear, O Israel."
"But hear what? The Bible is hundreds upon hundreds of
voices all calling at once out of the past and clamoring for our attention like barkers at a fair, like
air-raid sirens, like a whole barnyard of cockcrows as the first long shafts of dawn fan out across
the sky.
"Some of the voices are shouting, like Moses' voice, so all Israel, all the world, can hear. Some are so soft and
halting that you can hardly hear them at all, like Job with ashes on his head and his heart broken
or like old Simeon whispering, "Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in
peace."1
"The prophets shrill out in their frustration, their rage, their
holy hope and madness. The priests drone on and on about the dimensions and furniture of the
Temple. The lawgivers spell out what to eat and what not to eat; and the historians list the kings,
the battles, the tragic lessons of Israel's history.
"And somewhere in the midst of them all one particular
voice speaks out. It is unlike any other voice because it speaks so directly to the deepest privacy
and longing and weariness of each of us that there are times when the centuries are blown away
like mist. It is as if we stand with no shelter of time at all between ourselves and the one who
speaks our secret name.
"Come," the voice says. "Unto me. All ye.
Every last one."
1Luke 2:29
from A Room Called Remember by Frederick Buechner. Quoted by Bob Benson in Disciplining for the Inner Life
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