Neon-lit pain

We draw near to him by following him even on clumsy and reluctant feet and without knowing more than two cents’ worth at first about what is involved in following him — into the seventy-five-mile-an-hour, neon-lit pain of our world.

Frederick Buechner, Secrets in the Dark: A Life in Sermons, “The Sign by the Highway”

This, this,
how we draw near
to the one who set His face toward Jerusalem.

Thomas, the doubter:
Let’s go along
so we can die with him.

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