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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.

Anne Lamott

You can safely assume that you’ve created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.
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Assumption God Hate Image People Safety Yourself
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
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
When God is going to do something wonderful, He or She always starts with a hardship; when God is going to do something amazing, He or She starts with an impossibility.
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God Himself Impossible Start Wonderful
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
Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past.
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Better Forgiveness Hope Past
Small is how blessings, healing, progress and increase occur.
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Blessing Progress Small
We begin to find and become ourselves when we notice how we are already found, already truly, entirely, wildly, messily, marvelously who we were born to be.
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Beginning Born Mess Notice True Wild
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
You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories.
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Story Yourself
Love is so much bigger than our ignorance.
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Big Ignorance Love Ourselves
Joy is the best makeup.
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Best Happiness Joy Make Up One Liner
When faced with a crisis, do three things: breathe, pray and be kind.
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Breathe Kindness Prayer Reason
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
Getting into a new relationship is like pouring Miracle-Gro on your character defects.
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Character Miracle Relationship Yourself
Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.
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Time Work Yourself

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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