This London billboard, date 1881, may well apply to you and someone you know.
“Your lives are busy, useful, honest; but your faces are anxious and you are not all you want to be. There is within you another life, a buried life, which does not get free. In old days it got free through old forms of religion, and then men had peace and were not afraid of anybody or anything. We cannot go back to the old forms—they are gone with the old times and in the presence of the new learning of our days. Many therefore have given up religion altogether and carry about a buried life. It is buried but it is not dead. When it really hears God’s voice it will rise. …I believe that in the quiet of a place full of good memories, in the sound of fine music, in the sympathy of fellow seekers, we may better wait God’s call…. It may be that as you listen to the silence, to the music, or to the worship of others, God will speak and that the buried life will arise and that you will have peace.” (For All the Saints, I, 200)
I have speaking duties off campus all next week, so will not be putting out the Minute. It’s not health; thank you for your concern! It is about time, and there’s only so much. God bless, Dale