Learning to Walk in the Dark: Because Sometimes God Shows Up at Night

by Barbara Brown Taylor

There are no dark emotions, Greenspan says—just unskillful ways of coping with emotions we cannot bear. The emotions themselves are conduits of

pure energy that want something from us: to wake us up, to tell us something we need to know, to break the ice around our hearts, to move us to act.

If we could learn to be attentive every moment of our lives, he said, we would discover the world anew. We would discover that the world is completely different from what we had believed it to be.