that is the nature of marriage, to marry and remarry this one person again and again, to renegotiate the marriage in light of the changes in each of us." "To keep a vow," she writes, "is not to keep from breaking it but to keep trying to discover its meaning.
Some of her most useful and tender pages are on marriage and child-raising. Weems, who teaches Old Testament studies at Vanderbilt University Divinity School, married at 37. Her graceful language sisters well with the spiritual writings of such inner-journey masters as Doris Grumbach, Elizabeth O'Connor and Annie Dillard. Nothing cloying is here, nor anything self-indulgent. Weems's book, "Listening for God: A Minister's Journey Through Silence and Doubt," a deep well of reflective and often uplifting prose, shows a writer confessionally and candidly explaining the burdens of believing. Weems, a Tennessean who entered the ministry in 1979 after earning a master's and doctorate from Princeton Theological Seminary, the difficulties and darknesses made her feel "as though I had been seduced out into waters where God knew I couldn't swim, and had been left abandoned, without a life jacket, to flail about and figure out for myself how not to drown."
Mystics call it spiritual aridity.įor Rev. John of the Cross said that faith would eventually take a believer into the dark night of the soul. A Minister's Journey Through Silence and Doubtĭirector of the Center for Teaching Peace, teaching atįive Washington-area schools and a Maryland prison aĬorrespondent for most of the period covered by this book.Ĭardinal John Henry Newman argued that in matters of faith a thousand difficulties don't equal one doubt.
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