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So my father drives and my brother watches the road for rabbits and I feel my father’s life flowing back from our car in the last of the afternoon, darkening and turning strange, like a landscape that has an enchantment on it, making it kindly, ordinary and familiar while you are looking at it, but changing it, once your back is turned, into something you will never know, with all sorts of weathers, and distances you cannot imagine. [“Walker Brothers Cowboy,” from Dance of the Happy Shades]
In Rough Country
Joyce Carol Oates
It’s easy to be smug about what is going on in another country from the safe distance of one’s own,
The Irrational Season
Madeleine L'Engle
The word revelation has a number of synonyms: disclosure, manifestation, epiphany. Jesus discloses what God is like. Jesus is the epiphany of God, a word that means the manifestation on the surface of something from the depths. He is, to return to the metaphors, the Word of God, Wisdom of God, Son of God, and Light of the World.
The Meaning of Jesus
Marcus J. Borg, N. T. Wright
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