"The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry."
~ Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms



"Our lives disconnect and reconnect, we move on, and later we may touch one another, again bounce away. This is the felt shape of a human life, neither simply linear nor wholly disjunctive nor endlessly bifurcating, but rather this bouncey sequence of bumping into's and tumblings apart."
~ Salman Rushdie, The Ground Beneath Her Feet



Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Grace...In A Touch...In The Holding Of A Hand...



"To lend each other a hand when we're falling....perhaps that's the only work that matters in the end..."
-Buechner

"But Jesus came and touched them. 'Get up,' he said. 'Don't be afraid.'"
-Matthew

"...we are flesh as well as spirit and that the touch of a hand has its own holiness."
-Buechner

"That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked at and our hands have touched..."
-John

"Every one needs a hand to hold on to..."
-John Mellencamp
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