Learning to Walk in the Dark: Because God often shows up at night | 
pickThis is a sort of meandering exploration of darkness and how a series of experiences helped the author embrace the wisdom to be found there. She challenges the binary notion that light = good and dark = bad, sharing the ways in which our faith can grow in times of darkness.
"To know the dark, go dark. Go without sight, and find that the dark, too, blooms and sings. —Wendell Berry”
pickAnother somewhat belated review! I finished this over a week ago and forgot to post about it. In this meditation on darkness--both spiritual and physical--Taylor explores the beauty of the dark and what it can offer us. I really appreciated her rejection of what she calls "full solar spirituality"--a simplistic faith that avoids anything dark or difficult. Walking in the dark is much more difficult--but also much more needed.
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"I always wondered why it took "three days" for significant things to happen in the Bible--Jonah spent three days in the belly of the whale, Jesus spent three days in the tomb, Paul spent three days blind in Damascus--and now I know. From earliest times, people learned that was how long they had to wait in the dark before the sliver of the new moon appeared in the sky. For three days every month, they practiced resurrection."
"To be human is to live by sunlight and moonlight, with anxiety and delight, admitting limits and transcending them, falling down and rising up. To want a life with only half of these things in it is to want half a life, shutting the other half away where it will not interfere with one's bright fantasies of the way things ought to be."
(Photo of a firethrower, taken at a friend's wedding reception several years back)
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These gorgeous font-centric covers are all from my TBR.
I'm coming to the end of this one, and miss her already. I'd like a photographic memory so that I could revisit my favorite parts at will.
