quotes

Dear Nick,

I just finished reading Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith by Anne Lamott. I really enjoyed it, and there are some quotes I want to share. Some are more for you, some are more for me.

"Sometimes grief looks like narcolepsy."

Quoting Blake: "We are here to learn to endure the beams of love."

"When a lot of things start going wrong al at once, it is to protect something big and lovely that is trying to get itself born, and that this something needs for you to be distracted so that it can be born as perfectly as possible."

"Grace is having a commitment to--or at least an acceptance of-- being ineffective and foolish."

"Sometimes when you need to feel the all-embracing nature of God, paradoxically you need to hang out in the ordinariness, in daily ritual and comfort."

"Awareness is about learning to keep yourself company."

I don't exactly why they spoke to me, but they did.

love,
Holly