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How do you begin? The answer is simple: you decide to.

Anne Lamott

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
Hope begins in the dark.
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Beginning Darkness Hope
Laughter is carbonated holiness.
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Holy Laughter One Liner
Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns.
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Comfortable Empty Faith Light Mess Return
Expectations are resentments under construction.
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Construction Expectation Regret
I don’t remember who said this, but there really are places in the heart you don’t even know exist until you love a child.
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Children Existence Heart Place Remember
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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Carry Change Myself People Thinking
Everyone is flailing through this life without an owner’s manual, with whatever modicum of grace and good humor we can manage.
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Goodness Grace Life Management
What’s the difference between you and God? God never thinks he’s you.
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Difference God Thinking Yourself
I do not at all understand the mystery of grace – only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us.
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Finding Leaving Mystery Understand Yourself
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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Different Grace Universe Yourself
To love yourself as you are is a miracle, and to seek yourself is to have found yourself for now. And now is all we have, and love is who we are.
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Be Yourself Love Miracle Seek
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
Joy is the best makeup.
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Best Happiness Joy Make Up One Liner
I don’t know much, but I understand how entirely doomed I am without God.
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God Myself Religious Understand
You can either practice being right or practice being kind.
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Choice Kindness Practice Right Yourself

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