Week 4 - Read­ing 2 

God speaks to us through our lives, we often too eas­i­ly say.  Some­thing speaks any­way, spells out some sort of god­ly or god­for­sak­en mean­ing to us through the alpha­bet of our years, but often it takes many years and many fur­ther spellings out before we start to glimpse, or think we do, a lit­tle of what that mean­ing is.  Even then we glimpse it only dim­ly, like the first trace of dawn on the rim of night, and even then it is a mean­ing that we can­not fix and be sure of once and for all because it is always incar­nate mean­ing and thus as alive and chang­ing as we are our­selves alive and chang­ing.
 

Buech­n­er, Fred­er­ick Lis­ten­ing to Your Life (New York, NY: Harper­Collins Pub­lish­ers, 1992) p.12-13.