Most of us will have more than one job in our working lives, which means we will have more than one opportunity to seek meaningful work at different stages of our own deepening humanity.
Barbara Brown TaylorDivine reality is not way up in the sky somewhere; it is readily available in the encounters of everyday life, which make hash of my illusions that I can control the ways God comes to me.
Barbara Brown TaylorI'll do my best to always put God and neighbor ahead of ego, but I want to find myself, and if finding myself means losing my ego self, I'll go there.
Barbara Brown TaylorIn a world where faith is often construed as a way of thinking, bodily practices remind the willing that faith is a way of life
Barbara Brown TaylorIf God is about putting God ahead of myself then I've just quit being religious, because that's what got me into such deep trouble.
Barbara Brown TaylorYou probably can't get much closer to God than serving a congregation 24/7. At the same time, there's a different kind of closeness in this present life I have in which I have much more freedom to come and go and to engage some of the silence and stillness and solitude that I was missing before.
Barbara Brown Taylor