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Can you imagine the hopelessness of trying to live a spiritual life when you’re secretly looking up at the skies not for illumination or direction, but to gauge, miserably, the odds of rain?

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Life
Direction
Miserably
Sky
Gauge
Rain
Gauges
Imagine
Hopelessness
Looking
Illumination
Spiritual
Secretly
Live
Skies
Trying
Odds

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