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I just try to love and serve everyone, and bring everyone water, and lend an ear; that's what jesus said to do.
-Anne Lamott
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I Just Try To Love And Serve

Anne Lamott
I just try to love and serve everyone, and bring everyone water, and lend an ear; that's what jesus said to do.
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To follow jesus implies that we enter into a way of life that is given character and shape and direction by the one who calls us. to follow jesus means picking up rhythms and ways of doing things that are often unsaid but always derivative from jesus, formed by the influence of jesus. to follow jesus means that we can't separate what jesus is saying from what jesus is doing and the way that he is doing it. to follow jesus is as much, or maybe even more, about feet as it is about ears and eyes" (the way of jesus, eugene h. peterson, 22).
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The ear participates, and helps arrange marriages; the eye has already made love with what it sees. the eye knows pleasure, delights in the body's shape: the ear hears words that talk about all this. when hearing takes place, character areas change; but when you see, inner areas change. if all you know about fire is what you have heard see if the fire will agree to cook you! certain energies come only when you burn. if you long for belief, sit down in the fire! when the ear receives subtly; it turns into an eye. but if words do not reach the ear in the chest, nothing happens.
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Study water. try to grab a hold of water, and it will always elude you. you just have to let yourself be in it. it's soft, and it overcomes anything that's hard. put the hardest substance - say, titanium - out there, and let water flow over it. eventually, patiently, peacefully, the water will just wear it away. also, water will enter anywhere - through any opening at all. so, let yourself be like that. god is in nature, everywhere and always. and we have so much to learn.
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Imagine a limitless expanse of water: above and below, before and behind, right and left, everywhere there is water. in that water is placed a jar filled with water. there is water inside the jar and water outside, but the jar is still there. the 'i' is the jar.
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I’m trying to embroider.” hyacinth held up her handiwork as proof. “you’re trying to avoid—” her mother stopped, blinking. “i say, why does that flower have an ear?” “it’s not an ear.” hyacinth looked down. “and it’s not a flower.” “wasn’t it a flower yesterday?” “i have a very creative mind,” hyacinth ground out, giving the blasted flower another ear. “that,” violet said, “has never been in any doubt.” hyacinth looked down at the mess on the fabric. “it’s a tabby cat,” she announced. “i just need to give it a tail.
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