Once an old woman at my church said the secret is that God loves us ex…

Anne Lamott
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Once an old woman at my church said the secret is that God loves us exactly the way we are and that he loves us too much to let us stay like this, and I'm just trying to trust that. ✨ Anne Lamott (1994). Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year, Fawcett
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Once an old woman at my church said the secret is that God loves us exactly the way we are and that he loves us too much to let us stay like this, and I'm just trying to trust that. ✨ Anne Lamott (1994). Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year, Fawcett

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