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"Tending to that which is in our care can remind us of the miracle that is being alive. It reminds us how lucky we are to be in relationship with others: to have a sense of belonging + place; to have a life so full, so rich, that material things get demolished because we + the people around us are sucking the marrow out of the bones of every day we are given."

"After years of wanting certainty, I now realize I shouldn't presume to be certain about much when it comes to God. Rather, I want to be fascinated. And so I want my theology and mythology to be complex, layered, and complicated."

"Outrage us love's wild and unacknowledged sister. She is the one who recognizes feminine injury, stands on the roof, and announces it if she has to, then jumps into the fray to change it.
She is the one grappling with her life, reconfiguring it, struggling to find liberating ways of relating."
-Sue Monk Kidd

Jewish feminist Helene Cixous writes, "We must learn to speak the language women speak when there is no one there to correct us."

I bought this book in 2021 and haven't had time nor motivation to pick it up. I opened it today with my 2nd cup of coffee, and it turns out that Evans' writings are pretty fantastic and challenging and exciting (and so far more spiritual than religious-based, so it doesn't feel too alienating for people who doesn't ascribe to a specific set of beliefs.)