Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.
ANNE LAMOTTLighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.
ANNE LAMOTTI 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.
ANNE LAMOTTI 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.
ANNE LAMOTTAnd as it turns out, if one person is praying for you, buckle up. Things can happen.
ANNE LAMOTTNothing 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.
ANNE LAMOTTWriting and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul.
ANNE LAMOTTThis is one thing they forget to mention in most child-rearing books, that at times you will just lose your mind. Period.
ANNE LAMOTTAnd 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.
ANNE LAMOTTNever compare your insides to everyone else’s outsides.
ANNE LAMOTTYou can either practice being right or practice being kind.
ANNE LAMOTTChurches are good for prayer, but so are garages and cars and mountains and showers and dance floors.
ANNE LAMOTTBut 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.
ANNE LAMOTTSmall is how blessings, healing, progress and increase occur.
ANNE LAMOTTOr you might shout at the top of your lungs or whisper into your sleeve, “I hate you, God.” That is a prayer too, because it is real, it is truth, and maybe it is the first sincere thought you’ve had in months.
ANNE LAMOTTLaughter is a bubbly, effervescent form of holiness.
ANNE LAMOTTI can tell you that what you’re looking for is already inside you.
ANNE LAMOTT