Hallo all it is St Cartilege of the dancefloor here ....Having had a bit more time than usual on my hands this week have been reading a few books as well as watching some really bad tv . Came across this from my all time favourite spiritual writer Frederick Buechner and thought it was a good thing to consider for the new year ........A bit like gareths truisms only good ....

Listen to your life
All moments are key moments

"I discovered that if you really keep your eyes peeled to it and your ears open, if you really pay attention to it ,even such a limited and limiting life as the one I was living on rupert mountain opened up onto extraordinary vistas. Taking your children to school and kissing your wife goodbye. Eating lunch with a friend . Trying to do a decent days work . Hearing the rain patter against the window. There is no event so commonplace but that God is present within it , always hiddenly , always leaving you room to recognize him or not to recognize him, but all the more fascinatingly because of that, all the more compellingly and hauntingly...... If I were called upon to state in a few words the essence of everything I was trying to say both as a novelist and a preacher it would be something like this: Listen to your life . See it for the fathomless mystery that it is . In the boredom and pain of it no less than in the excitement and gladness; touch taste smell your way to the holy and hidden heart of it because in the last analysis all moments are key moments , and life itself is grace. " Frederick Buechner .