In “Learning to Walk in the Dark,” Barbara Brown Taylor begins by saying that she uses “darkness” as “shorthand for anything that scares me – that I want no part of – either because I am sure that I do not have the resources to survive it or because I do not want to find out.” Yet when she is forced by circumstances to face any of her fears, she discovered that she “learned things in the dark that I could never have learned in the light...
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Darkness: Confronting Fear
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In “Learning to Walk in the Dark,” Barbara Brown Taylor begins by saying that she uses “darkness” as “shorthand for anything that scares me – that I want no part of – either because I am sure that I do not have the resources to survive it or because I do not want to find out.” Yet when she is forced by circumstances to face any of her fears, she discovered that she “learned things in the dark that I could never have learned in the light...