I quit my last real job, as a writer at a magazine, when I was twenty-one. That was the moment when I lost my place of prestige on the fast track, and slowly, millimeter by millimeter, I started to get found, to discover who I had been born to be, instead of the impossibly small package, all tied up tightly in myself, that I had agreed to be.


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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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