There’s a gentle morning breeze rolling off the lake. The dogs have settled in for another nap, and Alison and I are doing just we intended for this midweek vacation to Quebec.

In my feed arrived this quote from Frederick Buechner that epitomized this moment of reflection. In his book Now and Then, Buechner wrote:

“If I were called upon to state in a few words the essence of everything I was trying to say both as a novelist and as a preacher, it would be something like this: Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery it is. In the boredom and pain of it no less than in the excitement and gladness: touch, taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden heart of it because in the last analysis all moments are key moments, and life itself is grace.”