Courage is fear that has said its prayers. - Anne Lamott

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Courage is fear that has said its prayers.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott (born 10 April 1954) is an American novelist and non-fiction writer.

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Human lives are hard, even those of health and privilege, and don't make much sense. This is the message of the Book of Job: Any snappy explanation of suffering you come up with will be horseshit.

You are lucky to be one of those people who wishes to build sand castles with words, who is willing to create a place where your imagination can wander.

I mean “God” as Jane Kenyon described God: “I am food on the prisoner’s plate . . . / the patient gardener / of the dry and weedy garden . . . / the stone step, / the latch, and the working hinge.” I mean “God” as shorthand for the Good, for the animating energy of love; for Life, for the light that radiates from within people and from above; in the energies of nature, even in our rough, messy selves.

Courage is fear that has said its prayers. - Anne Lamott

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