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121 " I guess it's like discovering you're on the shelf of a pawnshop, dusty and forgotten and maybe not worth very much. But Jesus comes in and tells the pawnbroker, 'I'll take her place on the shelf. Let her go outside again. "
― Anne Lamott , Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith
122 " surrender means you get to come on over to the winning side. "
123 " God isn’t there to take away our suffering or our pain but to fill it with his or her presence, "
124 " Keep walking, though there’s no place to get to. Don’t try to see through the distances. That’s not for human beings. Move within, but don’t move the way fear makes you move. Today, like every other day, we wake up empty and frightened. Don’t open the door to the study and begin reading. Take down a musical instrument. Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground. "