Frederick Buechner is a contemporary writer and preacher of some renown. In a recent Christian Century (Apr. 4, 06) he reminds us of the central point of this week, of Good Friday, and of our Easter hope. I want to share this paragraph with you. Let the wisdom of it, help you seek He who is the way, truth, and life.

“When it comes to the mystery of death, like the mystery of life, how can any of us know anything? If there is a realm of being beyond where we now are that has to do somehow with who Jesus is, and is for us, and is for all the world, then how can we know the way that will take us there? ‘I am the way, and the truth, and the life,’ is how he answers. He does not say the church is the way. He does not say his teachings are the way, or what people for centuries have taught about him. He does not say religion is the way, not even the religion that bears his name. He says he himself is the way. And he says that the truth is not words, neither his words nor anyone else’s words. It is the truth of being truly human as he was truly human and thus at the same time truly God’s. And the life we are dazzled by in him, haunted by in him, nourished by in him is a life so full of aliveness and light that not even the darkness of death could prevail against it.”

In Him,
Scott