Sunday, June 24, 2012




I began to cry
and left Church
before the benediction,
and I raced home
and felt the little cat
running along at my heels,
and I walked down the dock
past dozens of potted flowers
under a sky as blue
as one of God's own dreams,
and I opened the door,
and I stood there a minute,
and then I hung my head
and said,
"OK: I quit."

I took a long deep breath
and said out loud,
"All right.
You can come in."

So this was my
beautiful moment
of conversion.


Anne Lamott




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