tragedy. comedy. fairy tale.

Recently, I've been thinking about one of my favorite books, Telling the Truth: the Gospel as Tragedy, Comedy and Fairy Tale by Frederick Buechner. I was introduced to this book by Sarah, who is the sort of person that when she tells you to check something out, you do. She said it was a must read. It is.

Anyways, I thought I would share the love by throwing out a quote per chapter (don't worry there's only four chapters). This may take me six months to complete, but I'm cool with it if you are!

A particular truth can be stated in words - that life is better than death and love than hate, that there is a god or is not, that light travels faster than sound and cancer can sometimes be cured if you discover it in time. But truth itself is another matter, the truth that Pilate asked for, tired and bored and depressed by his long day. Truth itself cannot be stated. Truth simply is, and is what is, the good with the bad, the joy with the despair, the presence and absence of God, the swollen eye, the bird pecking the cobbles for crumbs. Before it is a word, the Gospel that is truth is silence, a pregnant silence in its ninth month, and in answer to Pilate's question, Jesus keeps silent, even with his hands tied behind him manages somehow to hold silence out like a terrible gift.