(Although when I mentioned this to my priest friend Tom, he said you can safely assume you’ve created God in your own image when it turns out that Go… - Anne Lamott

You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.

‎You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.

Holiness has most often been revealed to me in the exquisite pun of the first syllable, in holes- in not enough help, in brokenness, mess. High holy places, with ethereal sounds and stained glass, can massage my illusion of holiness, but in holes and lostness I can pick up the light of small ordinary progress, newly made moments flecked like pepper into the slog and the disruptions.

It's so awful, attacking your child. It's the worse thing I know, to shout loudly at this 50 lb. being with his huge trusting brown eyes. It's like bitch-slapping E.T.

Sometimes grace works like water wings when you feel you are sinking.