Quote: Ruthless Trust

Ruthless Trust is the name of the book I have been trying to finish for awhile now. After about three months, I am still only four chapters in. It just doesn't keep me coming back for more. So today I cut my losses and quit the book - which is a real throwback to my teaching days. One of the first skills I remember teaching my third graders in Reader's Workshop was knowing when to abandon a book. It's a very empowering practice for us reader-types and us finish-what-you-start types.

However, all is not lost on my fruitless attempts to get through the book. I had already noted and saved the following line:

"To be grateful for an unanswered prayer, to give thanks in a state of interior desolation, to trust in the love of God in the face of marvels, cruel circumstances, obscenities, and commonplaces of life is to whisper a doxology in darkness."

Amen to the message of this quote and amen to the beautiful phrase at the end ... "to whisper a doxology in darkness."