Traveling Mercies on page 22 of Bird by Bird she attributes this to "my priest friend Tom".You can safely assume you’ve created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.I thought the secret of life was obvious: be here now, love as if your whole life depended on it, find your life's work, and try to get hold of a giant panda. Originally posted to the Religion Blog of the Dallas Morning News in 2008.
When I am reading a book like this, I feel rich and profoundly relieved to be in the presence of someone who will share the truth with me, and throw the lights on a little, and I try to write these kinds of books. I try to write the books I would love to come upon, that are honest, concerned with real lives, human hearts, spiritual transformation, families, secrets, wonder, craziness-and that can make me laugh.
Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save they just stand there shining. You can safely assume you’ve created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do. Anne Lamott (born 10 April 1954) is an American novelist and non-fiction writer.
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