But if our fixation on a particular imagery is too exclusivist, then our sense of the future decays into a restrictive obsession with the sheer givenness of things. (religion-online.org)
The sheer phenomenal flux and the sheer givenness of separate existence were rationally unintelligible as well as existentially unendurable. (religion-online.org)
When my mama opens up this new book of words, The Way of Abundance, and reads how all the pages are dedicated to her, I cup her face and I read to her the story that she's written with her days, a story different from being a Mud Swallower or Mud Slinger or Mud Runner, a story of surrendered givenness that has let the Potter shape and transform her into the beauty of cruciform. (annvoskamp.com)