Draw us out

“It is madness to wear ladies’ straw hats and velvet hats to church; we should all be wearing crash helmets. Ushers should issue life preservers and signal flares; they should lash us to our pews. For the sleeping god may wake someday and take offense, or the waking god draw us out where we can never return.” 

– Annie Dillard, “An Expedition to the Pole” in Teaching a Stone to Talk

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“I had staked my life on the belief

that the next step would be revealed.”  

                       – Nora Gallagher