I don’t know about you, but these days I’m awash with anxiety. Hyperpartisan politics, raising a teenager … they all contribute to an ongoing sense of waiting for the other shoe to drop.
But faith, as Richard Rohr reminds us, is a relationship of trust between human beings and God, and when I allow anxiety to take the driver’s seat, I am not practicing faith but something else.
So I was particularly interested in reading Rachel Marie Stone’s new memoir, “Birthing Hope: Giving Fear to the Light.” I resonated with a lot of her experiences. How, in an age of anxiety, do we surrender fear to the light?