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I'm human, you're human, let me greet your humanness. Let's be people together for a while.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Humanness
Greet
Together
Human
Humans
People

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Life is like a recycling center, where all the concerns and dramas of humankind get recycled back and forth across the universe. But what you have to offer is your own sensibility, maybe your own sense of humor or insider pathos or meaning. All of us can sing the same song, and there will still be four billion different renditions.
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I am not writing to try and convert people to fundamental Christianity. I am just trying to share my experience, strength and hope, that someone who is as messed up and neurotic and scarred and scared can be fully accepted by our dear Lord, no questions asked.
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Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns.
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Summer nearly does me in every year. It's too hot and the light is unforgiving and the days go on way too long.
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