This is part four of a six-part conversation about how God gives us enough time to finish our lives well, but just enough time. If you’d like to begin at the beginning… or if youwould rather, you can see the entire essay at barneywiget.com.] I have things I feel called by God to accomplish in …
What About Faith? (Part 2)
Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns. Anne Lamott “Trust for a miracle with all your heart” is not exactly what Solomon wrote. He did write, however, “Trust in the Lord with all your heart” (Proverbs 3). Trusting in him helps me live peacefully …
Friends (part one)
“Where’s anyone who cares about me? The world’s lousy, no good. If I’d had my life to live over again, I would’ve done things a little different. I would’ve had more friends.” Ty Cobb I want to be rich in friends more than rich in just about anything else I can be rich in. Anne …
“Jobian”…
[Another random selection from the memoir I'm finishing up...] We ignore the ambiguity that accompanies our finitude, and thus we claim to know what we can't know. We reduce the unfathomable complexity of the cosmos to the capacity of our finite minds. When we do this, we invariably end up blaming God or indicting victims. …
Lessons of a Loser (part four)
Alcoholics Know How To Pray A while back I ran across the prayer often used by Alcoholics Anonymous groups. Anne Lamott calls it a "Greatest Hits prayer" and posits an alternative to the opening part: "God grant me the serenity to accept the things I can't change, the courage to change the things I can, …
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