I think this is how we are supposed to be in the world-present and in awe.
ANNE LAMOTTForgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past.
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Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past.
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We are not here to see through one another, but to see one another through.
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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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The reason life works at all is that not everyone in your tribe is nuts on the same day.
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I was reminded of the Four Immutable Laws of the Spirit: Whoever is present are the right people. Whenever it begins is the right time. Whatever happens is the only thing that could have happened. And when it’s over, it’s over.
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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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But grace can be the experience of a second wind, when even though what you want is clarity and resolution, what you get is stamina and poignancy and the strength to hang on.
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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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Churches are good for prayer, but so are garages and cars and mountains and showers and dance floors.
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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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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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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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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.
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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.
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One thing I know for sure about raising children is that every single day a kid needs discipline. But also every single day a kid needs a break.
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