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Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns.

Anne Lamott

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
A big heart is both a clunky and a delicate thing; it doesn’t protect itself and it doesn’t hide. It stands out, like a baby’s fontanel, where you can see the soul pulse through.
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Delicate Heart Myself Soul Stand Thinking
When faced with a crisis, do three things: breathe, pray and be kind.
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Breathe Kindness Prayer Reason
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
I’m not going to change the way people think about me, but I can say you know what? I’m not going to carry that in my backpack.
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Carry Change Myself People Thinking
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
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
I’m human, you’re human, let me greet your humanness. Let’s be people together for a while.
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Human People Togetherness 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
My mind is a neighborhood I try not to go into alone.
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Alone Mindset Myself Try
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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Beginning Hope Right Work Yourself
Or 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.
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God Hate Prayer Sincere Thinking Yourself
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
This is one thing they forget to mention in most child-rearing books, that at times you will just lose your mind. Period.
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Children Forget Lose Mindset Time 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
What’s the difference between you and God? God never thinks he’s you.
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Difference God Thinking Yourself

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