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Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue

Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

I watched him carefully. He was making art because he has to, and because he's brave enough to try and make contact, right there on the edge of madness, where he dreams.

Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

His art springs out of bubbling underground necessity, as if he's somehow dipping himself into the river that gave him life; he's making dream material visible.

Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

It turned out this man worked for the Dalai Lama. And she said gently-that they believe when a lot of things start going wrong all at once, it is to protect something big and lovely that is trying to get itself born-and that this something needs for ...

Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

Every Sunday I nudge Sam in her direction, and he walks to where she is sitting and hugs her. She smells him behind the ears, where he most smells like sweet unwashed new potatoes. This is in fact what I think God may smell like, a young child's slig...

Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

Then the singing enveloped me. It was furry and resonant, coming from everyone's very heart. There was no sense of performance or judgment, only that the music was breath and food.

Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

The road to enlightenment is long and difficult, and you should try not to forget snacks and magazines.

Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

And we've read scary books and watched scary movies and TV shows together. He's met monsters, ghouls, and demons on the page and on the screen. There's nothing like watching Anaconda with your best friend or lying in bed next to your mother reading R...

Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

The clipping said forgiveness meant that God is for giving, and that we are here for giving too, and that to withold love or blessings is to be completely delusional.

Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

Not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die.

Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

This is the most profound spiritual truth I know: that even when we're most sure that love can't conquer all, it seems to anyway. It goes down into the rat hole with us, in the guise of our friends, and there it swells and comforts. It gives us secon...

Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

Mine was a patchwork God, sewn together from bits of rag and ribbon, Eastern and Western, pagan and Hebrew, everything but the kitchen sink and Jesus.

Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

I know nothing, except what everyone knows--if there when grace dances, I should dance.

Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

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 empty and desperate and have discovered that your best thinking and most charming charm have failed ...

Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

Grief ends up giving you the two best things: softness and illumination.

Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

The depth of the feeling continued to surprise and threaten me, but each time it hit again and I bore it...I would discover that it hadn't washed me away.

Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

Now she and I sit together in her room and eat chocolate, and I tell her that in a very long time when we both to go heaven, we should try to get chairs next to each other, close to the dessert table.

Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

...most of the time, all you have is the moment, and the imperfect love of the people around you.

Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith