What is saving you today?

“What is saving you today?” That may be the best question ever asked, a question that, once in mind, is never far from your lips. Barbara Brown Taylor, a fine preacher in the Episcopal tradition, was once in a quandary … a sermon was due, it was Saturday evening, and inspiration was in short supply. She chanced to speak to an elderly preacher who said, “The question is: ‘What is saving you today?’” Barbara’s sermon came easily with that question hovering over her typewriter. It is a profound question and the answers to it are as varied and consequential as any you might imagine. In the best of times, in the difficult times …. “What is saving you today?”