That’s enough, and I have a ministry as a neighbor as well. A ministry as a friend and a ministry as an aunt and a godmother, and family is very much in the circle of my vocation.
BARBARA BROWN TAYLOR
BARBARA BROWN TAYLOR
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Barbara Brown Taylor78 quotes“That’s enough, and I have a ministry as a neighbor as well. A ministry as a friend and a ministry as an aunt and a godmother, and family is very much in the circle of my vocation.”
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I’m a follower of the Christ path, and that opens a huge discussion about what we even mean by words like “Christian.”
Barbara Brown TaylorBarbara Brown Taylor For a long time I listened to other people to decide whether I was still Christian or not, and I would sort of vet myself by the traditional formulae.
Barbara Brown TaylorBarbara Brown Taylor I can’t help but note that God is being useful to a lot of people trying to do harm to one another.
Barbara Brown TaylorBarbara Brown Taylor Most of us like thinking we are God’s only children…At least one of the purposes of church is to remind us that God has other children, easily as precious as we. Baptism and narcissism cancel each other out.
Barbara Brown TaylorBarbara Brown Taylor The great thing about civility is that it does not require you to agree with or approve of anything. You don’t even have to love your neighbor to be civil. You just have to treat your neighbor the same way you would like your neighbor to treat your grandmother, or your child.
Barbara Brown TaylorBarbara Brown Taylor Kindness is not a bad religion, no matter what name you use for God.
Barbara Brown TaylorBarbara Brown Taylor I wanted to be as close as I could to the Really Real, and I’ll capitalize both of those R’s, because God is a word that means different things to different people, but we might all agree it’s what is most real.
Barbara Brown TaylorBarbara Brown Taylor The boundaries became constrictive in what I was doing, and if my faith grew, it was because I pressed some of the boundaries in ways I hadn’t felt comfortable or responsible doing that before.
Barbara Brown TaylorBarbara Brown Taylor I thought being faithful was about becoming someone other than who I was…it wasn’t until I failed that I began to wonder if my human wholeness might be more useful to God than my exhausting goodness.
Barbara Brown TaylorBarbara Brown Taylor Church can be extremely boring. It can be very meaningful, it can be character forming, but can be have very little fizz in it.
Barbara Brown TaylorBarbara Brown Taylor There was no time anymore to be quiet or still or pray. So, in many ways, that’s what led to my downward spin.
Barbara Brown TaylorBarbara Brown Taylor I’ve got a hold of something that won’t move. It’s a willingness to keep walking into the next day, open to whatever may turn out to be true that day.
Barbara Brown TaylorBarbara Brown Taylor If God is about putting God ahead of myself then I’ve just quit being religious, because that’s what got me into such deep trouble.
Barbara Brown TaylorBarbara Brown Taylor Our waiting is not nothing. It is something — a very big something — because people tend to be shaped by whatever it is they are waiting for.
Barbara Brown TaylorBarbara Brown Taylor The tradition piece is so embedded in me I don’t know that I can see it any more, but the community piece is one I’ve been in danger of losing.
Barbara Brown TaylorBarbara Brown Taylor The beauty in the losing is a loss finally of self-consciousness. There’s a gorgeous moment that can happen in all kinds of places. It can happen with people, it can happen with nature, and it can happen with my eyes shut anywhere I am.
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Aeriel MirandaAeriel Miranda However, I was very conscious of the fact that both sides of my family were drastically different and my aunts, cousins, and uncles varied in different shades of brown.
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