Amanda Davee

“Our telos is community not self-sufficiency. It's feast, a life together.

Even now, we work toward this vision of redemption. We weep and watch, but we don't stop there. We don't take a passive posture toward the renewal of the world.

Our shared human vulnerability calls us to action, to work. Our response to human vulnerability, is always in part to seek to mitigate it. To make the world, however slightly, more safe, more beautiful, more just and truthful.”
― Tish Harrison Warren, Prayer in the Night: For Those Who Work or Watch or Weep

“What was there to say? Trapped inside a person, grief can feel like a rising tide of water, something vast and dramatic requiring release. But once spoken, it tends to reveal itself to be the same, small essential things, over and over. He missed her. He struggled without her. He wished she were still there.”
― Sophie Elmhirst, A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck

“Only while I’m still in bed. That doesn’t mean I don’t get something out of it once I’m there. It’s not even really the religion bit. It just warms you, the familiar faces, feeling a part of something. And the incense too. It smells like home. Safe, you know? And you sit there in the quiet, listening, and you get to thinking about something you’ve been wrestling with. And I don’t know if it’s those big high ceilings that just spirit it away—the blessed space—but when I leave, I always feel lighter. Ready to go into the week.”
― Florence Knapp, The Names

“Even before the first minor chord sounded in humanity's song when things were as they should be, and we knew no suffering or pain. We still were not self-sufficient.

It was not good for Man to be alone.

In our purest humanity we were interdependent and needy. We relied on God and on other people and we worked. We worked together, even. Our common life depended on each other's toil.”
― Tish Harrison Warren, Prayer in the Night: For Those Who Work or Watch or Weep