During Advent, we have to sit in our own anxiety and funkin… - Anne Lamott

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During Advent, we have to sit in our own anxiety and funkiness long enough to know what a Promised Land would be like, or, to put it another way, what it means to be saved — which, if we are to believe Jesus or Gandhi, specifically means to see everyone on earth as family.

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

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