“You fashion your story as you fashion your faith, out of the great hodgepodge of your life—the things that have happened to you and the things you’ve dreamed of happening. They’re the raw material of both. Then, if you’re a writer, like me, you try less to impose a shape on the hodgepodge than to see what shape emerges from it. You try to sense in what direction the hodgepodge of your life is moving.” ~ Frederick Buechner, pg. 52, “Faith and Fiction.” from the book, Going on Faith