Become More Curious – Jan. 9, 2020
“Become more curious about your own darkness. What can you learn about your fear of it by staying with it for a moment before turning on the lights? Where can you feel the fear in your body? When have you felt that way before? What are you afraid is going to happen to you, and […]
Seeing Can Blind Us – Jan. 8, 2020
“It makes me wonder how seeing has made me blind—by giving me cheap confidence that one quick glance at things can tell me what they are, by distracting me from learning how the light inside me works, by fooling me into thinking I have a clear view of how things really are, of where the […]
A Bed – Jan. 7, 2020
“A bed… is where you face your nearness to or farness from God. Whether you are in pain or not, whether you are an anxious person or not—even, I think, whether you are a religious person or not—a bed is where you come face-to-face with what really matters because it is too dark for most […]
Remembering How – Jan. 6, 2020
Befriending darkness is the theme for this week, beginning with Epiphany on January 6. Selections come from Barbara Brown Taylor’s book, Learning to Walk in the Dark (New York: Harper One, 2014). “Learning to walk in the dark is an especially valuable skill in times like these—or maybe I should say remembering how to walk […]