Quote
Frederick Buechner wrote: “Of the seven deadly sins, anger is possibly the most fun. To lick your wounds, to smack your lips over…
Anger · Forgiveness · Generosity
Buechner
Metaphor
The Closed Hand
traditional
A closed hand cannot receive or give. Selfishness keeps the fingers tight around what it fears to lose. The tragedy is that the same posture that tries to secure the self also isolates it. Opening the hand feels like risk. It is also the only posture in which both giving and receiving become possible.
How you’d preach it
Selfishness is not only what we take. It is what we refuse to open.
- Generosity