“It might help if I go ahead and tell you
what I think is the truth of your spiritual identity…Actually, I don’t have a
clue. But I know that you feel it best when you’re not doing much – when you’re
in nature, when you’re very quiet or, paradoxically, listening to music.
I know you can feel it and hear it in the
music you love, in the base line, in the harmonies, in the silence between
notes: in Chopin and Eminem, Emmylou Harris, Neil Young, Bach, whomever. You
can close your eyes and feel the divine spark concentrated in you….You are
Spirit, you are love, and even though it is hard to believe sometimes you are
free. You’re here to love, and be loved, freely. If you find out next week that
you are terminally ill – and we’re all terminally ill on this bus – what will
matter are memories of beauty, that people loved you, and that you loved
them….Rest and laughter are the most spiritual and subversive acts of all.
Laugh, rest, slow down….You’ve done amazing things. And you are loved; you are
capable of lives of great joy and meaning. It’s what you are made of. And it’s
what you’re here for. Take care of yourselves; take care of one another.”
~ Anne Lamott, Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith
I just found your site. Was it merely by accident? I don't think so. I am so in love with the whole concept of grace, of sacrificial love. It was Anne Lamott that brought me here, but it is the subject matter that will keep me coming back. Thank you Anne. Thank you Christopher. God Bless you both.
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