Healing Words
I enjoy insightful writers. Madeleine L’Engle, who died a few years ago, was a gifted, insightful writer. She offered these words for us to think about as we begin another week.
“It is no coincidence that the root word of whole, health, heal, and holy is hale (as in hale and hearty).
If we are healed, we become whole; we are hale and hearty; we are holy.
“The marvelous thing is that this holiness is nothing we can earn.
We don’t become holy by acquiring merit badges and Brownie points.
It has nothing to do with virtue or job descriptions or morality.
It is nothing we can do, in this do-it-yourself world.
It is gift, sheer gift, waiting there to be recognized and received.”
--Ben Keckler
11.28.11
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