...[T]here should be a real sense of your imagination and your memories walking and woolgathering, tramping the hills, romping all over the place. Trust them. Don't look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.


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Grief, as I read somewhere once, is a lazy Susan. One day it is heavy and underwater, and the next d...
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I don’t know why life isn’t constructed to be seamless and safe, why we make such glaring mistak...
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Who was it who said that forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a different past?
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Mine was a patchwork God, sewn together from bits of rag and ribbon, Eastern and Western, pagan and ...
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[Her] work taught me that you could be all the traditional feminine things -- a mother, a lover, a l...
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It's so awful, attacking your child. It's the worse thing I know, to shout loudly at this 50 lb. bei...
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The thing about light is that it really isn’t yours; it’s what you gather and shine back. And it...
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...music is about as physical as it gets: your essential rhythm is your heartbeat; your essential so...
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...most of the time, all you have is the moment, and the imperfect love of the people around you.
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It is unearned love--the love that goes before, that greets us on the way. It's the help you receive...
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My heart was broken and my head was just barely inhabitable
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...because when people have seen you at their worst, you don't have to put on the mask as much.
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Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue
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During Advent, we have to sit in our own anxiety and funkiness long enough to know what a Promised L...
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We can see Spirit made visible when people are kind to one another, especially when it's a really bu...
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Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some l...
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Her purse was a weight, ballast; it tethered her to the earth as her mind floated away.
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... one of the immutable laws of being human is that the people who show up are the right people. [p...
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But you don't always get what you want;,you get what you get
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What you're looking for is already inside you. You've heard this before, but the holy thing inside y...
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If you haven't already, you will lose someone you can't live without, and your heart will be badly b...
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... everyone has come to understand that unconditional love is a reality, but with as shelf life of ...
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When we did art with the kids, the demons would lie down.
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Age has given me what I was looking for my entire life - it has given me me . It has provide...
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You want to protect your child from pain, and what you get instead is life, and grace; and though th...
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Rule 1: When all else fails, follow instructions. And Rule 2: Don't be an asshole.
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Rest and laughter are the most spiritual and subversive acts of all. Laugh, rest, slow down.
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I'm here to be me, which is taking a great deal longer than I had hoped.
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This is one thing they forget to mention in most child-rearing books, that at times you will just lo...
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Certainty is missing the point entirely.
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Help" is a prayer that is always answered. It doesn't matter how you pray--with your head bowed in s...
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Forgiveness means it finally becomes unimportant that you hit back. You're done. It doesn't necessar...
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Hope is not about proving anything. It's about choosing to believe this one thing, that love is bigg...
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A good marriage is where both people feel like they're getting the better end of the deal.
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Underneath all things means that beneath the floorboards, in the depths, in the spaces between the p...
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These are the words I want on my gravestone: that I was a helper, and that I danced."

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I still encourage anyone who feels at all compelled to write to do so. I just try to warn people who...
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But how?" my students ask. "How do you actually do it?"
You sit down, I say. You try to sit do...
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I do not understand the mystery of grace -- only that it meets us where we are and does not leave us...
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Your problem is how you are going to spend this one odd and precious life you have been issued. Whet...
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I got a lot of things that society had promised would make me whole and fulfilled - all the things t...
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رفض ما دون الكمال ، ينطوي على كثير من الظلم والعداء للإ�...
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I didn't write about my mother much in the third year after she died. I was still trying to get ...
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I like the desert for short periods of time, from inside a car, with the windows rolled up, and the ...
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When I was a kid, our family used to watch 'Bonanza.' I really liked having a Sunday night T...
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I used to love to untangle chains when I was a child. I had thin, busy fingers, and I never gave up....
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A good marriage is supposed to be one where each spouse secretly thinks he or she got the better dea...
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See how the fearful chandelier Trembles above you Each time you open your mouth To sing. Sing. —DO...
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After a while the middle-aged person who lives in her head begins to talk to her soul, the kid.
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