by Anne Lamott
"The opposite of faith is not doubt but certainty."
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I read this quote and thought, AMEN! That is exactly what I have been thinking. I tried my best to describe this phenomenon in my Andrew Peterson post from last month, but Lamott says it so much better. I am amazed at her ability to describe concepts so perfectly in so few words. Maybe if I were a professional writer, then I could do it too, but I am just a amateur blogger.
SO, mainly I wanted to add this here as a footnote to my earlier post--and to say "Thanks!" to Anne Lamott for working through what she calls "shitty rough drafts" in order create art out of the silly English language.
If you are a person of faith, but are unsatisfied with the BLACK and WHITE versions of old, you must read Anne Lamott.
I LOVE Anne Lamott. I have read Bird by Bird and the recent Help, Thanks, Wow: The Three Essential Prayers. "You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do."
ReplyDeleteThat is one of my favorite Lamott quotes, too! I am pretty sure it is on my FB wall in the "quotes" section. I haven't read Help, Thanks, Wow yet. I need to get on it!
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