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Everyone is flailing through this life without an owner's manual, with whatever modicum of grace and good humor we can manage.

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As a Christian and a feminist, the most important message I can carry and fight for is the sacredness of each human life, and reproductive rights for ...more

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We stitch together quilts of meaning to keep us warm and safe, with whatever patches of beauty and utility we have on hand.

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God can't clean the house of you when you're still in it.

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I wish grace and healing were more abracadabra kind of things. Also, that delicate silver bells would ring to announce grace's arrival. But no, it's c...more

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I have become the woman I hardly dared imagine I could be. There are parts I don’t love—until a few years ago, I had no idea that you could have cellu...more

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Grace means suddenly you’re in a different universe from the one where you were stuck, and there was absolutely no way for you to get there on your ow...more

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grace is a small white butterfly, and life is a semi trailer careening up 101.

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It is unearned love--the love that goes before, that greets us on the way. It's the help you receive when you have no bright ideas left, when you are ...more