This, for example, which took my breath away:
I read certain paragraphs and had to put it down and pause, let those words sink in. I brought Leaving Church by Barbara Brown Taylor ( right now $3.79 on kindle) with me when I took a few days away alone in Palm Springs and it is one of the best faith memoirs I've ever read. Naturally, I started reading a few faith books as well. Then I started reading Christian blogs and made the startling (and welcome) discovery that most grown people were no longer espousing youth group theology. I didn't purposely avoid it, but it didn't appeal to me so I rarely picked something like that up. Is it understanding? A light in their own darkness? A general interest in the way God does or does not show up? Are we hoping to prove or disprove our own theories by reading a description of another befuddled heart?įor a long time I didn't read much about other's people struggles or victories with their faith. It's unclear what one is seeking when reading someone else's faith memoir. While this understanding had the welcome effect of changing faith from a noun to a verb for me, it was an understanding that told me how far I had strayed from the center of my old spiritual map."įrom Leaving Church, Barbara Brown Taylor I trusted God to hold me and those I loved, in life and in death, without giving me one shred of conclusive evidence that it was so. I trusted God to sustain the world although I could not say for sure how that happened.
"I trusted God to be God even if I could not say who God was for sure.
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