God Cannot be Grasped – Mar. 28, 2023
“One of the central functions of the dark night, [John of the Cross] says, is to convince those who grasp after things that God cannot be grasped. In John’s native Spanish, his word for God is nada. God is no-thing. God is not a thing. And since God is not a thing, God can not […]
Eclipsing Reality – Aug. 24, 2021
“God is not a thing. And since God is not a thing, God cannot be held onto. God can only be encountered as that which eclipses the reality of all other things.” –Barbara Brown Taylor, Learning to Walk in the Dark
