“This faith will not offer me much to hold on to. It will not give me a safe place to settle. Practicing it will require me to celebrate the sacraments of defeat and loss, but since the religion I know best has a lot to say about losing as the precondition for finding, I can live with that… even my sense of God’s absence can be a token of God’s presence if I let it.”
–Barbara Brown Taylor, Learning to Walk in the Dark
