Beauty is a miracle of things going together imperfectly.

From Stitches by Anne Lamott

Here’s the true secret of life: we do mostly everything over and over. In the morning, we let the dogs out, make coffee, read the paper, help others…we do our work…In the afternoon, we come home, put down our keys, make dinner, let the dogs out…I love ritual and repetition. Without them, I would be a balloon with a slow leak.  
Anne Lamott

Love yourself, fiercely, loyally, unapologetically.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. Eleanor Roosevelt 

In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few.

Shunryu Suzuki

Foregiveness means giving up all hope for a better past.

One if the best things you can do to improve the world is to improve yourself.

Lent presents us with the gift of listening.

Listening lies at the heart of our relationship with God and with others.

May we open ourselves up to the spiritual practice of listening as a way of life.