The practice of resurrection begins in the dark.
Taylor wrote this while working through her own discomfort with darkness, both literal and spiritual, after leaving a parish she had built and loved for years. She was in a period of professional loss and personal disorientation, questioning what her life and work had actually meant. The line speaks directly to mortality and legacy because it refuses the idea that meaning is only made in bright, successful moments — it suggests that what we leave behind is often shaped most by the hard, invisible seasons we lived through.
Reflection
Most people avoid thinking about what they will leave behind until it feels urgent. What is one specific thing — a relationship, a habit, a belief — that you are still building, and do you actually want it to be part of your legacy?