Fed by Life
How can we know all this, yet somehow experience joy? Because that’s how we’re designed — for awareness and curiosity. We are hardwired with curiosity inside us, because life knew…
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There Is Forgiveness
The lesson here is that there is no fix. There is, however, forgiveness. To forgive yourselves and others constantly is necessary. Not only is everyone screwed up, but everyone screws…
Designed for Joy
Almost everyone is screwed up, broken, clingy, scared, and yet designed for joy. Even (or especially) people who seem to have it more or less together are more like the…
Unwanted Help
The harm is in the unwanted help or helping them when they need to figure things out for themselves. Help is the sunny side of control. — Anne Lamott, Almost…
Starting Whole
Is it possible, since skin is the largest organ of the body, that new babies don’t know the inside from the outside when they first come out? That there is…
Outshine the Resentment
Forgiveness and mercy mean that, bit by bit, you begin to outshine the resentment. You open the drawer that was shut and you take out the precious treasures that you…
Thorn in the Flesh
He asked God over and over to remove this thorn, but God said no. God said that grace and mercy had to be enough, that nothing awful or fantastic that…
Beautiful Cracks
One has to be done with the pretense of being just fine, unscarred, perfectly self-sufficient. No one is. The ancient Chinese had a practice of embellishing the cracked parts of…
Mercy People
To have borne broken hearts and seen such broken lives around the world is what gave us a shot at becoming mercy people. — Anne Lamott, Hallelujah Anyway, p. 49
The Way Out
The path away from judgment of self and neighbor requires major mercy, both giving and, horribly, receiving. Going without either of them leads to fundamentalism of all stripes, and fundamentalism…