I do not at all understand the mystery of grace — only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us. I can be received gladl… - Anne Lamott

I do not understand the mystery of grace — only that it meets us where we are and does not leave us where it found us.

I do not at all understand the mystery of grace — only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us.

I also tell them that sometimes when my writer friends are working, they feel better and more alive than they do at any other time. And sometimes when they are writing well, they feel that they are living up to something. It is as if the right words, the true words, are already inside them, and they just want to help them get out.

Throughout my childhood I believed that what I thought about was different from what other kids thought about. It was not necessarily more profound, but there was a struggle going on inside me to find some sort of creative or spiritual or aesthetic way of seeing the world and organizing it in my head.

If you want to make God laugh, tell her your plans.