Can you imagine the hopelessness of trying to live a spiritual life wh…

Anne Lamott
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Can you imagine the hopelessness of trying to live a spiritual life when you’re secretly looking up at the skies not for illumination or direction, but to gauge, miserably, the odds of rain? ✨ Anne Lamott (2000). Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith, p.204, Anchor
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Can you imagine the hopelessness of trying to live a spiritual life when you’re secretly looking up at the skies not for illumination or direction, but to gauge, miserably, the odds of rain? ✨ Anne Lamott (2000). Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith, p.204, Anchor

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