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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

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
I spent my whole life helping my mother carry around her psychic trunks like a bitter bellhop. So a great load was lifted when she died, and my life was much easier.
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Carry Death Easy Greatness Life Mom Ourselves
Your inside person doesn’t age. Your inside person is soul, is heart, in the eternal now, the ageless, the old, the young, all the ages you’ve ever been.
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Age Heart Old Person Soul Young Yourself
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
Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past.
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Better Forgiveness Hope Past
The world is always going to be dangerous, and people get badly banged up, but how can there be more meaning than helping one another stand up in a wind and stay warm?
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Dangerous Meaning People Stand Stay Warm Wind World
Dogs are the closest we come to knowing the divine love of God on this side of eternity.
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Divine Dog Forever Side
Churches are good for prayer, but so are garages and cars and mountains and showers and dance floors.
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Dance Floor Mountain Prayer Religious
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
What’s the difference between you and God? God never thinks he’s you.
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Difference God Thinking Yourself
Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul.
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Life Ourselves Soul Wide Writing
How do you begin? The answer is simple: you decide to.
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Beginning Decision Simplicity Yourself
Prayer means that, in some unique way, we believe we’re invited into a relationship with someone who hears us when we speak in silence.
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Invitation Prayer Relationship Silence Unique
Pay attention to the beauty surrounding you.
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Attention Beautiful Pay Surround Yourself
You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.
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Better People Story Warm Writing Yourself
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

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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