"She's tiptoeing into the very beginning of some sort of relationship with God, or with a higher power, or something, but it is very hard for her to believe...
I recommended that she think of all of the women who have most adored her in her life and to come up with a sense of God based on that kind of love, on the same protectedness that it gives you to be loved by a really fine woman, a sense of some mysterious regenerative force at the center of things that is maybe just love... by this morning, she'd found a picture of a big cat licking a little cat... So at the hospital this morning, as she sat in the doctor's office getting the chemo IV, and then as she sat around at home all day waiting to become Linda Blair, she said she'd picture this big cat licking her gently and carrying her in its mouth to safer places."
Anne Lamott, Operating Instruction
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Certainly there has to be room for Anne Lamont AND Ani. If that space didn't exist, one would have to all together question God's benevolence.
I am happy to acknowlegde the idea that God could be defined as a female chicken, or hard core activist, or flittering butterfly.
For me, God is.
And that's really all I SHOULD need.. well, when not considering this silly human flesh bag I currently reside in, that is.
(sigh)
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