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Nothing heals us like letting people know our scariest parts: When people listen to you cry and lament, and look at you with love, it’s like they are holding the baby of you.

Anne Lamott

Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don’t give up.
ANNE LAMOTT

Beginning Hope Right Work Yourself
Love falls to earth, rises from the ground, pools around the afflicted. Love pulls people back to their feet. Bodies and souls are fed. Bones and lives heal. New blades of grass grow from charred soil. The sun rises.
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Body Earth Fall Healing Live Love Rise Soul Sun
Butterflies and birds are like one perfect teaspoon of creation.
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Animal Creation Oneself Perfection
Expectations are resentments under construction.
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Construction Expectation Regret
If we stay where we are, where we’re stuck, where we’re comfortable and safe, we die there… When nothing new can get in, that’s death.
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Comfortable Death Safety Stay
My mind is a neighborhood I try not to go into alone.
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Alone Mindset Myself Try
Never compare your insides to everyone else’s outsides.
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Compare Side Yourself
I think this is how we are supposed to be in the world-present and in awe.
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Ourselves Present Thinking World
Human lives are hard, even those of health and privilege, and don’t make much sense. This is the message of the Book of Job: Any snappy explanation of suffering you come up with will be horseshit.
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Explanation Hard Health Human Live Message Privilege Suffering
When faced with a crisis, do three things: breathe, pray and be kind.
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Breathe Kindness Prayer Reason
Again and again I tell God I need help, and God says, ‘Well, isn’t that fabulous? Because I need help too. So you go get that old woman over there some water, and I’ll figure out what we’re going to do about your stuff.
ANNE LAMOTT

God Need Water Woman Yourself
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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Creation Expression Search Time Writing
So a moral position is not a message. A moral position is a passionate caring inside you.
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Care Message Moral Passionate Position Yourself
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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Drink God Myself Thinking
We are not here to see through one another, but to see one another through.
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Another Oneself See
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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Best Help Prayer Thankful

Nothing heals us like letting people know our scariest parts: When people listen to you cry and lament, and look at you with love, it’s like they are holding the baby of you.

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Nothing heals us like letting people know our scariest parts: When people listen to you cry and lament, and look at you with love, it’s like they are holding the baby of you.

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