"But down in the darkness below those dreams-- in the place where all our notions of God have come to naught--there is stil reason to hope, because disillusionment is not bad. Disillusionment is the loss of illusion--about ourselves, about the world, about God--and while it is almost always painful, it is not a bad thing to lose the lies we have mistaken for truth. Disillusioned, we come to understand that God does not conform to our expectations....We review our requirements fo God and recognize them against our own fictions, our own frial shelters against the vast night sky. Disillusioned, we find out what is not true and are set free to seek what is-- if we dare."
-Barbara Brown Taylor, "The Preaching Life"
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