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.
Barbara Brown TaylorBarbara Brown Taylor I think my idea of God was much more directive than my idea of God now, that is, a God who had one plan in mind for me, perhaps, and my job was to find out what it was and obey.
Barbara Brown TaylorBarbara Brown Taylor The real problem has far less to do with what is really out there than it does with our resistance to finding out what is really out there.
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