Tabitha

“This family, of whom it is uniquely true that they are chosen by God to carry forward His will for humankind, must be as unhappy as any family could be. When we consider what the favor of God can look like, Jacob and his sons should surely be borne in mind.”

Reading Genesis by Marilynne Robinson, page 206 (talking about the saga of Joseph’s

“The tide comes in, the tide goes out, and when you are older, around the time when you stop feeling like you’ve crawled into somebody else’s shell, old friends begin to die with appalling regularity.”

— Anne Lamott, Somehow (73)

“ We have a progressive movement that seems to kick down every societal boundary that’s been built over the years, and then demands we put our own back up—and defend them alone.” — Freya India in an interview with N.S. Lyons https://open.substack.com/pub/theupheaval/p/the-self-and-the-soul-a-dialogue?r=bfch&utm_medium=ios

“I had been visited by grace in its distressing guise of having run out of any more good ideas.”

— Anne Lamott, Somehow (52)