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

by Barbara Brown Taylor

But wake up in bed in the middle of the night, unable to go back to sleep, and you can be in for a real workout.

what if I could learn how to stay in the present instead of letting my anxieties run on fast-forward?

bed is where you come face-to-face with what really matters because it is too dark for most of your usual, shallowing distractions to work.

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.