Most of us will have more than one job in our working lives, which means we will have more than one opportunity to seek meaningful work at different stages of our own deepening humanity.
BARBARA BROWN TAYLORFor 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.
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I love being alone. I learned that from my father, I think, who loved his own company.
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Most of us spend so much time thinking about where we have been or where we are supposed to be going that we have a hard time recognizing where we actually are.
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When I talk about losing myself, which I did, it’s losing my idea of who I was and my idea of what I was supposed to be doing and the idea of what my value was to God. I lost all of that at least.
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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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We are born seekers, calling strange names into the darkness from our earliest days because we know we are not meant to be alone, and because we know that we await someone whom we cannot always see.
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I’m leaving out some of the hugely successful megachurches, of which I have very little experience.
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Once I gave up the hunt for villains, I had little recourse but to take responsibility for my choices…. Needless to say, this is far less satisfying that nailing villains. It also turned out to be more healing in the end.
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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.
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The poets began drifting away from churches as the jurists grew louder and more insistent.
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Church can be extremely boring. It can be very meaningful, it can be character forming, but can be have very little fizz in it.
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As a general rule, I would say that human beings never behave more badly toward one another than when they believe they are protecting God.
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I became so attentive to the souls of other people that I was not as attentive as I might have been to my own.
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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.
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You can create an intimate community of about 20 or 25 people, and beyond that you’re into a different kind of relationship.
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There was no time anymore to be quiet or still or pray. So, in many ways, that’s what led to my downward spin.
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