Godthings

“I am a Christian. I believe that Christ comes alive in communion between people. Sometimes I’ll think all kinds of things are wrong with my life, like, my job is messing me up, my writing is messed up, something’s messed up, and then I’ll have a conversation with someone about a religious topic or it’s spiritually informed in some way, and it’s honest. And even if we don’t get anywhere, even if we disagree, the air has been cleared in me, and I realize that in some ways that I was dealing with all these things that weren’t bedrock, they weren’t the ground of my being, and I’m trying to take care of things. The structure is on top instead of the ground of my being, and I find that often all you need is some kind of conversation with someone, even if it’s just expressing pure anxiety.”

— Christian Wiman, Remembering God (an interview with Christian Wiman by Krista Tippett), On Being