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Flannery O’Connor – Place

Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to was never there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it. Where is there a place for you to be? No place… Nothing outside you can give you any place… In yourself right now is all the place you’ve got.

This is a snippet form Flannery O’Connor’s Wise Blood. In context, it was used by someone who was denying the existence of objective truth, but there are probably a couple of senses in which it is true.

Psalm 90:1 A PRAYER OF MOSES, THE MAN OF GOD. Lord, you have been our dwelling place in all generations.

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