'Sunday after Sunday we go to church because we are looking for Jesus in some uncertain way or another - of all the reasons we have, I think this is the heart of them. We go to church looking for him because not just maple woods and silence and the occasional testimony of his saints speak to us of him, but becuase the spirit of him is so at large in the air we breathe that almost anything we see can turn into the shadow of him if we're not careful or if we are creaful - a piece of bread, a glasss of wine. We go to church looking for Jesus in some uncertain way because in some uncertain way we have seen him, have seen enough of him to suspect that if there is anyone who can lighten the dimness of us, he is the one who can - the Light of the World; the light, if we could only see him, even of our own dim inner worlds.'
Frederick Buechner, 'A Little While' in A Room Called Remember, p.98.
