Learning to Walk in the Dark

“Darkness is secondhand for anything that scares me–either because I am sure that I do not have the resources to survive it or because I do not want to find out.  If I had my way, I would eliminate everything from are chronicle back pain to the fear of the devil from my life and the lives of those I love. At least I think I would.  The problem is this when, despite all my best efforts, the lights have gone off in my life, plunging me into the kind of darkness that turns my knees to water, I have not died.  The monsters have not dragged me out of bed and taken me back their liar.  Instead, I have learned things in the dark that I could never have learned in the light, things that have saved my life over and over again, so that there is really only one logical conclusion, I need darkness as much as I need light.”

—BARBARA BROWN TAYLOR

 From Learning to walk in the Dark

Follow Barbara Brown Taylor on her journey to understand darkness, which takes her spelunking in unlit caves, learning to eat and cross the street as a blind person, discovering how “dark emotions” are prevented from seeing light from a psychiatrist, and rereading the scripture to see all the times God shows up at night.  With her characteristic charm and wisdom, Taylor is our guide through a  spirituality of the nighttime, teaching us how to find God even in darkness and giving us a way to let darkness teach us what we need to know.