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To lick your wounds, to smack your lips ...

Author
  • Frederick Buechner
Categories
  • Personal Development
Keywords (10)
  • Wounds
  • Grieving
  • Bitterness
  • Pain and Joy
  • Pain
Scripture (6)
  • Genesis 27:41
  • Exodus 15:23-25
  • Job 10:1
  • Ephesians 4:31
  • Hebrews 12:15
Date Added
  • Mar 18, 2025

To lick your wounds, to smack your lips over grievances long past, to roll over your tongue the prospect of bitter confrontations still to come, to savor to the last toothsome morsel both the pain you are given and the pain you are giving back—in many ways it is a feast fit for a king. The chief drawback is that what you are wolfing down is yourself. The skeleton at the feast is you.

Wishful Thinking: A Theological ABC (New York: Harper & Row, 1973), 2.


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