Tanya

“Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it? – every, every minute?’ asks Emily in Thornton Wilder’s 1938 play Our Town. The answer, of course, is no. How could we? It’s all we’ve ever known. But contemplating the end can help.”
― Dorian Lynskey, Everything Must Go: The Stories We Tell About the End of the World

“I can understand such moments of pure joy are joyful because we have the sorrows to compare them to, just as, without darkness, we wouldn't understand the light.”
― Cynthia Reeves, The Last Whaler

“I often wonder what Christians in the United States will need to leave behind in order to embrace the adventure God has before us. I wonder what God might be stripping away so we can cling, desperately and helplessly, only to him. How does the longing for power, privelege, and position freeze us in place? How do our financial resources, technologival tools, and cultural arrogance insulate us from an honest encounter with God and with the world?
What might it look like for us to travel lightly today?”
― Tom Lin, Uncommon Ground: Living Faithfully in a World of Difference

“How is it that the songs we've repeated for years suddenly seem to speak to us? It's as if we mindlessly sing and recite until one day, we finally listen.”
― Cynthia Reeves, The Last Whaler