Quotable Monday

"Security is mostly a superstition.  It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men and women as a whole experience it.  Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure.  Life is either a daring adventure or nothing."  –Helen Keller

A friend sent me this quote after the first of the year.  My perceptions of security and safety in this world have been and continue to be challenged by God over the past decade.  I'm recognizing that setting up life to live in somewhat of an elusive bubble of worldly safety and security so to avoid danger has in fact created a more dangerous world.  As we live in segregated, isolated, exclusive ways throughout our communities, we place notions of peace, hope, and reconciliation on endangered lists.