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

by Barbara Brown Taylor

All in all, the moon is a truer mirror for my soul than the sun that looks the same way every day.

here is the testimony of faith: darkness is not dark to God; the night is as bright as the day.

when we run from darkness, how much do we really know about what we are running from? If we turn away from darkness on principle, doing everything we can to avoid it because there is simply no telling what it contains, isn’t there a chance that what we are running from is God?

While I am looking for something large, bright, and unmistakably holy, God slips something small, dark, and apparently negligible in my pocket. How many other treasures have I walked right by because they did not meet my standards?