Another Duncan Quote
“Questions that tap into our mortality, our pain, our selfishness, our basic needs, questions that arise from the immeasurable darkness, light, or mystery of our lives, require more than Answerization. They require our suffering, steadfastness, silent yearning, and deepest faith.”
Amen
January 25th, 2008 at 9:00 am
Wow. Where did you get this from? I may have to print it out and meditate on it more.
January 25th, 2008 at 10:05 am
Robin, thanks for asking – I should have put the reference there. It’s from Duncan’s “My Life as Told By Water”, a book of essays. I would tell you the exact page number, but right now I’m working in my bedroom while a babysitter watches Eli in the living room…which is where the book is (I don’t want to remind E that I’m actually home!). The chapter is titled something like “7 wrong answers to the question “Who owns America?’”
January 26th, 2008 at 9:52 pm
And if I had paid a little more attention, I would have realized that you gave the reference in the previous post.
Congratulations on finding a babysitter and successfully pretending you’re not there.