The heart of . . . spirituality isn't safety and security. Instead, it is what Dorothy Day called "precarity."
The word connotes instability, poverty, marginalization, the absence of a safety net. . . . It also suggests radical dependence: the Latin precarious is the state of being dependent on another's will, being upheld or sustained by another's force. So a spirituality centered on precarity acknowledges the radical uncertainty or contingency of human existence and our utter dependence on God.
— Kerry Walters, Jacob's Hip