If only we had eyes to see and ears to hear
and wits to understand, we would know that the Kingdom of God in the sense of
holiness, goodness, beauty is as close as breathing and is crying out to be
born within ourselves and within the world; we would know that the Kingdom of
God is what we all of us hunger for about all other things, even when we don’t
know its name or realize that it’s what we’re starving to death for. The Kingdom of God is where our best dreams
come from and our truest prayers. We
glimpse it at those moments when we find ourselves being better than we are and
wiser than we know. We catch sight of it
when at some moment of crisis a strength seems to come to us that is greater
than our own strength. The Kingdom of
God is where we belong. It is home, and
whether we realize it or not, I think we are all of us homesick for it.
--Frederick
Buechner
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