I do not know much about God and prayer, but I have come to believe over the last twenty-five years, that there’s something to be said about keeping prayer simple. Help, Thanks, Wow.
ANNE LAMOTTI am going to notice the lights of the earth, the sun and the moon and the stars, the lights of our candles as we march, the lights with which spring teases us, the light that is already present.
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Churches are good for prayer, but so are garages and cars and mountains and showers and dance floors.
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And as it turns out, if one person is praying for you, buckle up. Things can happen.
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The road to enlightenment is long and difficult, and you should try not to forget snacks and magazines.
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Here are the two best prayers I know: ‘Help me, help me, help me’ and ‘Thank you, thank you, thank you.
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When faced with a crisis, do three things: breathe, pray and be kind.
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You can safely assume that you’ve created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.
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I’m not going to change the way people think about me, but I can say you know what? I’m not going to carry that in my backpack.
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Grace means you’re in a different universe from where you had been stuck, when you had absolutely no way to get there on your own.
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How do you begin? The answer is simple: you decide to.
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Creative expression, whether that means writing, dancing, bird-watching, or cooking, can give a person almost everything that he or she has been searching for: enlivenment, peace, meaning, and the incalculable wealth of time spent quietly in beauty.
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I am going to notice the lights of the earth, the sun and the moon and the stars, the lights of our candles as we march, the lights with which spring teases us, the light that is already present.
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And she is going to dance, dance hungry, dance full, dance each cold astonishing moment, now when she is young and again when she is old.
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Butterflies and birds are like one perfect teaspoon of creation.
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I thought such awful thoughts that I cannot even say them out loud because they would make Jesus want to drink gin straight out of the cat dish.
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Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious.
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