Tuesday, July 27, 2010

abrasion, disruption, and discontinuity

Mature personhood does not come by pilgrimages of continuity,
but by abrasion, disruption, and discontinuity
which shatter our grasp of things and make us, at key points,
not the initiators but the recipients
of gifts and surprises
that we often do not want to receive...

// Hope Within History -- Walter Brueggemann

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