March 30th, 2018

Barbara Brown Taylor:

"loss is how we come to surrender our lives—if not to God, then at least to the Great Beyond—and even those who profess no faith in anything but the sap that makes the green blade rise may still confess that losing really has helped them find their ways again . . .

My losses have been chiefly in the area of faith, and specifically in the area of being certain who God is, what God wants of me, and what it means to be Christian in a world where religion often seems to do more harm than good . . .

Committing myself to the task of becoming fully human is saving my life now.  This is not the same as the job of being human . . . To become fully human is something extra, a conscious choice that not everyone makes . . .  there is more than one way to do this.  If I were a Buddhist, I might do it by taking the bodhisattva vow, and if I were a Jew, I might do it by following Torah.  Because I am a Christian, I do it by imitating Christ . . ."