I found these two Anita wall posters in a box – they had been on our wall for a while (around 2007, I am guessing), then taken down, set on the table for about a year and finally I put them in a box “to be sorted”.
Grace is unearned love – the love that goes before, that greets us on the way. It’s the help you receive when you have no bright ideas left, when you are empty and desperate and have discovered that your best thinking amd most charming charm have failed you. Grace meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us.
This one is a quote form Anne Lamott, and probably comes from Bird by Bird or Traveling Mercies, two books Anita read by Lamont. What strikes me about this one, what is personal to me, is it addressing my own feelings of being “empty and desperate”. While I am not sure she was referring to something like a wife’s death, it makes sense that God’s Grace will bring me through this time.
The second one is a prayer that, I belive, Anita wrote. While her exterior was shining and smiling, few people knew of her inner turmoil.
Heavenly Father — Take me. I have tried really hard to do something with myself and have utterly failed. Mold me into whatever you want. Give me my daily portion of whatever You think is best. I will be the best steward of it that I can, knowing all the time that I am helpless in any condition except in You.
