Your Wound
June 3, 2011 at 8:20 am | Posted in Lynda's Letters | Leave a commentTags: Angel that troubled the Waters, Wilder, Wound
“Without your wound where would your power be? It is your very remorse that makes your voice tremble into the hearts of men. The very angels themselves cannot persuade the wretched and blundering children on earth as can one human being broken on the wheels of living. In Love’s service, only the wounded soldiers can serve.”
(Thornton Wilder, The Angel That Troubled the Waters)
A Prayer
June 2, 2011 at 8:41 am | Posted in Lynda's Letters | 1 CommentTags: beuchner, prayer
“Help them to know that there are words of truth and healing that will never be spoken unless they speak them, and deeds of compassion and courage that will never be done unless they do them. Help them never mistake success for victory or failure for defeat. Grant that they may never be entirely content with whatever bounty the world may bestow upon them, but that they may know at last that they were created not for happiness but for joy, and that joy is to them alone who, sometimes with tears in their eyes, commit themselves in love to thee and to others. Lead them and all the world ever deeper into the knowledge that finally all people are one and that there can never really be joy for any until there is joy for all.“
(Frederick Beuchner)
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