(Part 1:) Haunting Quotes

Have you ever run across a quote that haunts you after you read it? I'm not talking about the unsettling kind of haunting; I mean the kind where something just hits a part of you dead-on, connecting with that piece of you. I'm always afraid to let those kind of quotes slip away. I am constantly writing down quotes that I don't want to lose.

I finished reading The Shack today, and part of the reason I think it took so long to read (almost a month) is because I needed time to digest some of the quotes in there. I needed to let them haunt me for a little while.

I read one the other day, and it really hit home today as I was driving to the church tonight for small group. I was looking at the biggest moon I have ever seen in my life, a distinct "cheese moon" (in the words of one of my preschoolers referring to that cheddary yellow color the moon sometimes gets. He must be a poet in the making). I wanted somebody whom I could share things with unreservedly like I can do with those I am close to. I wanted to tell them about the cheese moon and have them marvel with me over the size of it, wonder aloud if it's another one of those Texas things.

And then it hit me that I'll be going through all of this again in just a few short months as I move off to wherever the next phase of life takes me (St. Louis?).

That's when the quote came back to haunt me, giving me peace.

~"You can kiss your family and friends goodbye and put miles between you, but at the same time you carry them with you in your heart, your mind, your stomach, because you do not just live in a world but a world lives in you." [-Frederick Beuchner]~

...to be continued.