Nancy > Nancy's Quotes

“The homeless man sitting by the road begging for beer money? Christ made manifest. The grocery clerk standing on her feet all day saying a thousand hellos to a thousand different strangers? Christ made manifest. The nun walking through the subway station, the Buddhist monk catching the city bus, the window washer scrubbing the side of a Manhattan sky rise five hundred feet in the air? Christ made manifest, Christ made manifest, Christ made manifest. The image of God imprinted on every human, everywhere—the shiny stuff of heaven made tangible across the faces of ethnicities and cultures and people groups.”
― Cara Meredith, The Color of Life: A Journey toward Love and Racial Justice

“I think about James Baldwin, whose words are just now beginning to seep into my soul, who also once wrote, “You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.”3 He knew then, just as I’m learning now, that books connect us to the experiences of other people, of both the dead and those who are alive, to show us that we’re not alone, to provide us with a sense of belonging.”
― Cara Meredith, The Color of Life: A Journey toward Love and Racial Justice

“And a narrative of slavery continues, today’s shackles the injustice of mass incarceration of black and brown men, and systems of whiteness that do not affirm equality, liberty, and justice for all. It’s hard to ignore the facts when “more African American adults are under correctional control today—in prison or jail, on probation or parole—than were enslaved in 1850, a decade before the Civil War began. The mass incarceration of people of color is a big part of the reason that a black child born today is less likely to be raised by both parents than a black child born during slavery.”
― Cara Meredith, The Color of Life: A Journey toward Love and Racial Justice

“We are shaped by our daily habits. by the way we pray in the light and in the dark, by the way we speak and the way we trust. We worship God in the way we cry and scream and ask when we are uneasy, in the way we fully trust the Mystery to occupy our corrupt spaces and fill them with joy and fulfillment.”
― Kaitlin Curtice

“There are many people, in-between people, who walk in liminal spaces with an acknowledgment that all of life is a complex struggle, but one we should not handle alone.”
― Kaitlin Curtice

“And if we are learning anything in America in the twenty-first century, it's that restoration and healing are desperately needed. We need to begin asking what that might look like.”
― Kaitlin B. Curtice, Native: Identity, Belonging, and Rediscovering God

“What might we learn if we listen, if we wade in—unafraid, untethered, and uninhibited—ready to become the ones we were created to become.”
― Kaitlin B. Curtice, Native: Identity, Belonging, and Rediscovering God

“It is heartbreaking when the table of God is not set for all the people of God. It is heartbreaking when colonization and patriarchy take root over the truth, which manifests in inclusive love.”
― Kaitlin B. Curtice, Native: Identity, Belonging, and Rediscovering God

“What happens when white supremacy taints our Christianity so much that we would rather scream the love of God over someone than honor and respect their rights to live peacefully within the communities they have created and maintained for generations?”
― Kaitlin B. Curtice, Native: Identity, Belonging, and Rediscovering God