On Love — Frederick Buechner
"A miracle is when one plus one equals a thousand."
— Frederick Buechner, The Sacred Journey, 1982
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Frederick Buechner was a Presbyterian minister and one of the most quietly powerful writers of the twentieth century. He didn’t write about love the way poets do — sweeping and abstract. He wrote about it the way someone writes after they’ve lived long enough to know what it actually does to a person.
In The Sacred Journey, his memoir of faith and memory, he tried to name the thing that happens when two people find each other and neither one is ever quite the same again. Not addition. Not compromise. Something closer to multiplication — where the total becomes something neither could have reached alone. He called it a miracle. Not because it’s rare. Because it shouldn’t be possible, and yet it is.
One plus one equals a thousand.
Molins J.
Who in your life right now deserves more of your whole heart — and what's been holding it back?
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