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Book: Hallelujah Anyway: Rediscovering Mercy
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  1. Anne Lamott _ Hallelujah Anyway:

    Everything slows down when we listen and stop trying to fix the unfixable.
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  2. Anne Lamott _ Hallelujah Anyway:

    During congregational silences, in meditation rooms or halls, in prison cells and meeting rooms, in silent confession at church, all these screwed-up people like us, with tangled lives and minds, find their hearts opening through quiet focus. In unfolding, we are enfolded, and there is a melding of spirits, a melding of times, eternal, yesterday morning, the now, the ancient, even as we meet beneath a digital clock on the wall, flipping its numbers, keeping ordinary time in all that timelessness.
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  3. Anne Lamott _ Hallelujah Anyway:

    God makes a way out of no way.
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  4. Anne Lamott _ Hallelujah Anyway:

    Forgiveness and mercy mean that, bit by bit, you begin to outshine the resentment.
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  5. Anne Lamott _ Hallelujah Anyway:

    As well as we know our grown children and relatives, we don't know how much energy they have to put into simply keeping their lives together at all.
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  6. Anne Lamott _ Hallelujah Anyway:

    The good news is that God has such low standards, and reaches out to those of us who are often not lovable and offers us a chance to come back in from the storm of drama and toxic thoughts.
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  7. Anne Lamott _ Hallelujah Anyway:

    I love to be, and so often am, right.
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  8. Anne Lamott _ Hallelujah Anyway:

    do you still believe that I am the Resurrection and the Life? Even when you don't get what you want? Even when nothing makes sense?
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  9. Anne Lamott _ Hallelujah Anyway:

    Like the Buddha and Jesus, who knew they couldn't control our lives, but could infuse lives with their selves, we have been graced with a few people.
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  10. Anne Lamott _ Hallelujah Anyway:

    Mercy means compassion, empathy, a heart for someone's troubles. It's not something you do – it is something in you, accessed, revealed, or cultivated through use, like a muscle. We find it in the most unlikely places, never where we first look.
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  11. Anne Lamott _ Hallelujah Anyway:

    Hallelujah that in spite of it all, there is love, there is singing, nature, laughing, mercy.
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  12. Anne Lamott _ Hallelujah Anyway:

    Kindness toward others and radical kindness to ourselves buy us a shot at a warm and generous heart, which is the greatest prize of all.
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