Earth is so thick with divine possibility that it is a wonder we can walk anywhere without cracking our shins on altars.
BARBARA BROWN TAYLOR
BARBARA BROWN TAYLOR
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Barbara Brown TaylorBarbara Brown Taylor Day by day we are given not what we want but what we need. Sometimes it is a feast and sometimes…swept crumbs, but by faith we believe it is enough.
Barbara Brown TaylorBarbara Brown Taylor I didn’t want to be a priest. I wanted to do the work that priests do, and that required becoming a priest.
Barbara Brown TaylorBarbara Brown Taylor I read more widely. I made friends more widely. I wore more red. I stayed home on Sundays. I did things that were never in the realm of possible things to do before. That was a real desert experience for me.
Barbara Brown TaylorBarbara Brown Taylor I began to get notes from people saying they were sorry to hear I’d left ministry. And for a while, I halfway believed they were right, that I’d left.
Barbara Brown TaylorBarbara Brown Taylor I’m leaving out some of the hugely successful megachurches, of which I have very little experience.
Barbara Brown TaylorBarbara Brown Taylor The great wisdom traditions of the world all recognize that the main impediment to living a life of meaning is being self-absorbed.
Barbara Brown TaylorBarbara Brown Taylor I found myself in a maze where I’d taken the wrong turn. In my wish to do well for that congregation I wasn’t doing particularly well for myself or my friends or my family, and I even found that the work for God was taking me away from God.
Barbara Brown TaylorBarbara Brown Taylor 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 TaylorBarbara Brown Taylor Wisdom is not gained by knowing what is right. Wisdom is gained by practicing what is right, and noticing what happens when that practice succeeds and when it fails.
Barbara Brown TaylorBarbara Brown Taylor I am always surprised by people who speak of faith as if it happens in the air somewhere. Our bodies are God’s best way of getting to us. Revelation begins in the flesh.
Barbara Brown TaylorBarbara Brown Taylor To be in the mainline is to have a history and not simply to be an amalgam, a community church of who knows what that came from who knows where.
Barbara Brown TaylorBarbara Brown Taylor 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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