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Our lives—the questions and events and decisions and relationships that fill it—take their meaning from within some narrative.
“I generally played a little fast and loose with my resources but I figured hell, a man’s reach should exceed his grasp, especially in a stupid board game.”
― Ordinary Grace
― Ordinary Grace
“This was during the period my mother was enamored of the work of Ayn Rand and had decided she too could be a world-famous author.”
― Ordinary Grace
― Ordinary Grace
“I think we just keep going on. We keep doing what we always do and someday it'll feel right again.”
― Ordinary Grace
― Ordinary Grace
“He was a man with a son who stuttered and another probably on his way to becoming a juvenile delinquent and a daughter with a harelip who sneaked in at night from God knew where and a wife who resented his profession. Yet I knew it was not for himself or for any of us that he was praying. More likely it was for the parents of Bobby Cole. And for Gus. And probably for an asshole named Morris Engdahl. Praying on their behalf. Praying I suppose for the awful grace of God. 2 She wore a white terry-cloth robe and her feet were bare.”
― Ordinary Grace
― Ordinary Grace
“Heavenly Father, for the blessings of this food and these friends and our families, we thank you. In Jesus’s name, amen.” That was it. That was all of it. A grace so ordinary there was no reason at all to remember it. Yet I have never across the forty years since it was spoken forgotten a single word.”
― Ordinary Grace
― Ordinary Grace
Michael’s 2025 Year in Books
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