Mrsmegmcclure

“I find God most in that wild tang, in the sparse and open space, in the unresolved colors, even in the doubt and the uncelebrated places of our lives often neglected by theologians and philosophers. Perhaps that’s why I keep wrestling with this story of God, with the unresolved Jesus, with the wind and fire and water of the Spirit; there’s an edge to the story, more than we acknowledge at times.”
― Sarah Bessey, Miracles and Other Reasonable Things: A Story of Unlearning and Relearning God

“The truth is I haven’t always been able to figure out how to take the next step toward belonging. To do so, I am going to have to expose myself in ways that feel needy and, well, gross.”
― Erin S. Lane, Lessons in Belonging from a Church-Going Commitment Phobe

“We don’t have cobblestones and ancient buildings perhaps, but what we do have is the created world, still there, still breathing around us like a friend we haven’t lost touch with just yet. We may not have cathedrals and forums, but we have the cathedrals of the pines and the forums of wildflowers, and we have our own myths.”
― Sarah Bessey, Miracles and Other Reasonable Things: A Story of Unlearning and Relearning God

“My friend KellyIII told me to pay attention to the difference between self-care and self-comfort. I had a natural bent toward indulging in self-comfort; what I needed now in this season of my life was radical self-care. Self-comfort numbs us, weakens us, hides us; it can be a soporific. But self-care awakens us, strengthens us, and emboldens us to rise.”
― Sarah Bessey, Miracles and Other Reasonable Things: A Story of Unlearning and Relearning God