Preston Yancey

“Liturgy means the work of the people. It means the labor we are to do. Liturgical formation, the work that shapes us, is this: praying the prayers we otherwise wish we could skip over, embodying them, posturing ourselves to be transformed by them, so that we can keep that posture and that work when we walk back out into the world. It is the way we learn the vocabulary of what we have seen, or maybe the promise of what we will see someday again. Maybe for the first time.

We bring heaven in.”
― Preston Yancey, Tables in the Wilderness: A Memoir of God Found, Lost, and Found Again

“Perching on a corner of the couch between the boxes, I tore out a small piece of my heart and buried it there between them to await its own restoration of all things, in the end of every good-bye ever spoken.”
― Preston Yancey, Tables in the Wilderness: A Memoir of God Found, Lost, and Found Again