Monday 16 February 2015

Speechless

I am currently reading Penelope Wilcock's wonderful book "The Hawk and the Dove". This quotation, right at the beginning, stopped me dead in my tracks with my mouth agape:

"I went to church every Sunday, and I listened to
what they said about Jesus, and I believed it all, I really did; but
was there anyone anywhere who cared about it enough to behave
as if it were true? "

Straight to the heart of the matter.......

2 comments:

elizabeth said...

well hmmm. we do as best we can and some do very well. but repentance and confession, this is still happening and we have hope.

Elizabeth @ The Garden Window said...

Indeed it is, Elizabeth. The teenager in the quotation is feeling her way in the world, struggling to come to terms with what we believe is not always what we live out in our lives. Such a good book!