“People are prepared for
everything except for the fact that beyond the darkness of their blindness
there is a great light. They are prepared to go on breaking their backs plowing
the same old field until the cows come home without seeing, until they stub
their toes on it, that there is a treasure buried in that field rich enough to
buy Texas. They are prepared for a God who strikes hard bargains but not for a
God who gives as much for an hour’s work as for a day’s. They are prepared for
a mustard-seed kingdom of God no bigger than the eye of a newt but not for the
great banyan it becomes with birds in its branches singing Mozart. They are
prepared for the potluck supper at First Presbyterian but not for the marriage
supper of the lamb.”
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