Day 3: Anne Lamott and Everything She Knows For Sure

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"We're a mixed grill of happy anticipation and dread."
This is what floated to the surface of my mind after sitting with Anne Lamott this morning.*
Well that, and Gift Of Desperation is a great acronym for God.
I honestly had a really hard time with this assignment. I still am...wondering if this is the photo that I want to present, overthinking it all, again. Thinking it needs to be something perfect all wrapped up and contained.
Maybe it's because all of life really is a paradox. Life and death, give and take away, light and darkness, joy and sorrow, within and without, now and not yet.
Man it's a hard road to walk. 
It's only day 3 of this class and I'm already questioning myself. Am I really going to create something again tomorrow? And again, for the next 30 days???
But in my trivial desperation, God reminded me to turn around and remember a moment from last summer. 
The Portland Art Museum is a place I go often to clear my head. I stood there and basked in the light that was almost too bright from the bottom of the stairs.

The way up is down.

Yes of course there's more to create! 
I give thanks for the manna that was given to me then and today, knowing in faith that tomorrow there will be just enough to satisfy.

This I know for sure.


*our assignment was to watch Anne Lamott's TED talk on 12 things she knows for sure, which gloriously sums up the human experience. 

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