"God does not demand that we give up our personal dignity, that we throw in our lot with random people, that we lose ourselves and turn from all that is not him. God needs nothing, asks nothing,demands nothing, like the stars. It is a life with God which demands these things...
God does not, I regret to report, give a hoot. You do not have to do these things-----unless you want to know God. They work on you, not him.
You do not have to sit outside in the dark. If, however, you want to look at the stars, you will find that darkness is necessary. But the stars neither require nor demand it."
----Annie Dillard.
"Teaching a Stone to Talk"
Ms. Dillard is truly wonder-ful writer. Every three or four paragraphs she stops me dead in my tracks.
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