“While I am looking for something large, bright, and unmistakably holy, God slips something small, dark, and apparently negligible in my pocket. How many other treasures have I walked right by because they did not meet my standards?”  Barbar...

Our Lady of the Underground never asks me to choose between day and night. If I want to flourish I need the ever-changing light of darkness as much as I need the full of light of day. Give your heart to them both, she says. When I complain that I can...

...new life starts in the dark. Whether it is a seed in the ground, a baby in the womb, or Jesus in the tomb, it starts in the dark.  Barbara Brown Taylor In the heart of October, I am thinking about new life. I am thinking about the connecti...

During the day it is hard to remember that all the stars in the sky are out there all the time, even when I am too blinded by the sun to see them. Barbara Brown Taylor There is a constancy to light and dark, like sunlight at the depth of an ocean ...