Between the great
dramas of life, there is almost always a time of empty waiting – with nothing
to do and no church service to help – a time when it is necessary to come up
with your own words and see how they sound with no other sounds to cover them
up. If you are willing to rest in this
Sabbath, where you cannot see your hand in front of your face and none of your
self-protective labors can do you one bit of good, then you may come as close
to Christ as you will ever get – there in that quiet cave where you wait to see
how the Maker of All Life will choose to come to you in the dark.
--Barbara Brown Taylor, Waiting
in the Dark
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