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And as it turns out, if one person is praying for you, buckle up. Things can happen.

Anne Lamott

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
How do you begin? The answer is simple: you decide to.
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Beginning Decision Simplicity 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
Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.
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Time Work Yourself
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
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
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
Never compare your insides to everyone else’s outsides.
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Compare Side Yourself
Joy is the best makeup.
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Best Happiness Joy Make Up One Liner
Hope begins in the dark.
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Beginning Darkness Hope
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
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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Believe God Myself Prayer
Butterflies and birds are like one perfect teaspoon of creation.
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Animal Creation Oneself Perfection
When faced with a crisis, do three things: breathe, pray and be kind.
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Breathe Kindness Prayer Reason
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
A good marriage is where both people feel like they’re getting the better end of the deal.
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Better Deal End Goodness Marriage People Yourself

And as it turns out, if one person is praying for you, buckle up. Things can happen.

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