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Laughter is a bubbly, effervescent form of holiness.

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.
ANNE LAMOTT

Beginning Born Mess Notice True Wild
I don’t know much, but I understand how entirely doomed I am without God.
ANNE LAMOTT

God Myself Religious Understand
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?
ANNE LAMOTT

Dangerous Meaning People Stand Stay Warm Wind World
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.
ANNE LAMOTT

Believe God Myself Prayer
Hope begins in the dark.
ANNE LAMOTT

Beginning Darkness Hope
Again and again I tell God I need help, and God says, ‘Well, isn’t that fabulous? Because I need help too. So you go get that old woman over there some water, and I’ll figure out what we’re going to do about your stuff.
ANNE LAMOTT

God Need Water Woman Yourself
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.
ANNE LAMOTT

Be Yourself Love Miracle Seek
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.
ANNE LAMOTT

Finding Leaving Mystery Understand Yourself
You can either practice being right or practice being kind.
ANNE LAMOTT

Choice Kindness Practice Right Yourself
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.
ANNE LAMOTT

Body Earth Fall Healing Live Love Rise Soul Sun
If we stay where we are, where we’re stuck, where we’re comfortable and safe, we die there… When nothing new can get in, that’s death.
ANNE LAMOTT

Comfortable Death Safety Stay
Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.
ANNE LAMOTT

Light Run Save Shine Stand
Prayer means that, in some unique way, we believe we’re invited into a relationship with someone who hears us when we speak in silence.
ANNE LAMOTT

Invitation Prayer Relationship Silence Unique
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.
ANNE LAMOTT

Different Grace Universe Yourself
What’s the difference between you and God? God never thinks he’s you.
ANNE LAMOTT

Difference God Thinking Yourself
Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns.
ANNE LAMOTT

Comfortable Empty Faith Light Mess Return

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