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I’m currently reading Anne Lamott’s Traveling Mercies, a bittersweet, humorous, true-to-life, coming to faith story. It’s even got cuss words. I know. Shocking.

“Death is really just a major change of address.” (63)

“There are cracks, cracks in everything, that’s how the light gets in.” – Leonard Cohen

“Only grieving can heal grief.” (68)

“..we are a world in grief, and it is at once intolerable and a great opportunity.” (68)

“And I didn’t understand why as usual God couldn’t give me a loud or obvious answer, through a megaphone or thunder, skywriting or stigmata.” (85)

“…from the Jewish Theological Seminary that said, ‘A human life is like a single letter of the alphabet. It can be meaningless. Or it can be a part of a great meaning.’” (100)

“…Eugene O’Neill’s line, ‘Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue.’” (112)

“…grace is having a committment to – or at least an acceptance of – being ineffective and foolish.” (142-143)

“But patience is when God – or something – makes the now a little roomier.” (167)

“…Picasso said, ‘Everything is a miracle; it’s a miracle that one does not dissolve in one’s bath like a lump of sugar.” (198)