  Barbara Brown Taylor, “Redeeming Darkness” (Christian Century,
11/29/11)  You will think of [many] ways to get lost, or to
accept that you really have gotten lost through no choice of
your own. It can happen anywhere, in all kinds of ways. You can
get lost on your way home. You can get lost looking for love.
You can get lost between jobs. You can get lost looking for God.
However it happens, take heart. Others before you have found a
way in the wilderness, where there are as many angels as there
are wild beasts, and plenty of other lost people too. All it
takes is one of them to find you. All it takes is you to find
one of them. However it happens, you could do worse than to
kneel down and aska blessing, remembering how many knees have
kissed this altar before you.  Barbara Brown Taylor (via
mshedden)  "Soon after I moved to the country, a friend from the
city set out to see me and got seriously lost. These were the
days before cell phones, so she was on her own with nothing but
my directions and a badly ou