From “Life After Doom: Wisdom and Courage for a World Falling Apart” by Brian D. McLaren
As I wrote, I found myself distilling what seemed most important into short, simple statements, what you might call “moral guidelines” or “resilience mantras.” Eventually, I threw out my original outline for the book and chose those mantras as the book’s chapter titles. I realized that these chapters took a familiar U-shaped journey, from letting go (a path of descent) to letting be (a place of insight) to letting come (a path of resilience) to setting free (a path of agile engagement). Those four movements became the four parts of this book.