I was usually filled with a sense of something like shame until I'd re…

Anne Lamott
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I was usually filled with a sense of something like shame until I'd remember that wonderful line of Blake's- that we are here to learn to endure the beams of love- and I would take a long deep breath and force these words out of my strangulated throat: Thank you. ✨ Anne Lamott (2000). Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith, p.91, Anchor
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