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I didn’t need to understand the hypostatic unity of the Trinity; I just needed to turn my life over to whoever came up with redwood trees.

Anne Lamott

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
Laughter is a bubbly, effervescent form of holiness.
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Holy Laughter
I don’t know much, but I understand how entirely doomed I am without God.
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God Myself Religious Understand
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
Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious.
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Conscious Oneself Writing
Sometimes I think that Jesus watches my neurotic struggles, and shakes his head and grips his forehead and starts tossing back mojitos.
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Drink Myself Start Struggle Thinking Time
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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Children Healing Hold People Scary Yourself
Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past.
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Better Forgiveness Hope Past
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
Pay attention to the beauty surrounding you.
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Attention Beautiful Pay Surround Yourself
We are not here to see through one another, but to see one another through.
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Another Oneself See
Never compare your insides to everyone else’s outsides.
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Compare Side Yourself
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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Cold Dance Herself Hungry Moments Old Young
You are not your bank account, or your ambitiousness. You’re not the cold clay lump with a big belly you leave behind when you die. You’re not your collection of walking personality disorders. You are spirit, you are love.
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Ambition Collection Love Order Personality Spirit Walk Yourself
Rule 1: When all else fails, follow instructions. And Rule 2: Don’t be an asshole.
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Failure Follow Instruction Rule
People help you or you help them and when we offer or receive help, we take in each other. And then we are saved.
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Help Offering People Save Yourself

I didn’t need to understand the hypostatic unity of the Trinity; I just needed to turn my life over to whoever came up with redwood trees.

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