“You never know what may cause them. The sight of the Atlantic Ocean may do it, or a piece of music, or a face you’ve never seen before. A pair of somebody’s old shoes could do it… You can never be sure. But of this you can be sure. Whenever you find tears in your eyes, especially unexpected tears, it is well to pay the closest attention. They are not only telling you something about the secret of who you are, but more often than not God is speaking to you through them of the mystery of where you have come from and is summoning you to where, if your soul is to be saved, you should go next.” Frederick Buechner, Beyond Words, P.321, 2004.

“The place God calls you to is where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.”
Frederick Buechner, Wishful Thinking, P.95, 1973.