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Holy Envy: Finding God in the Faith of Others
Barbara Brown Taylor |
Two friends and I embarked on a reading adventure over the summer months.
Holy Envy is not for the faint of heart or those who have everything "nailed down." I was reading while waiting in a doctor's office one afternoon. I happened to look out the window and see the Houston skyline in the distance. It was a moment of serendipity to stop reading and snap a photo capturing the city where so many faiths are practiced.
“I asked God for religious certainty, and God gave me relationships instead. I asked for solid ground, and God gave me human beings instead—strange, funny, compelling, complicated human beings—who keep puncturing my stereotypes, challenging my ideas, and upsetting my ideas about God, so that they are always under construction. I may yet find the answer to all my questions in a church, a book, a theology, or a practice of prayer, but I hope not. I hope God is going to keep coming to me in authentically human beings who shake my foundations, freeing me to go deeper into the mystery of why we are all here.”― Barbara Brown Taylor
