I adore Anne Lamott’s writing. She’s gutsy, clear, unashamed, and she tells truth. I recently read something incredible that Anne wrote, “Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns.”
That statement is so totally true that I was “taken aback” by her insight.
We do first need to see the mess.
We do need to sit with our emptiness.
That makes us realize we NEED God.
Then we discover our discomfort. If we do NOT discover our discomfort, we will NOT change. Change is so difficult that we have to be convinced that we will continue to grow more and MORE uncomfortable unless we change. We have to be like a tiger backed into a corner before we will change.
That’s why we have to let it be uncomfortable for a good while.
At that point, because we have felt and experienced our discomfort, we look for a solution. We decide to act. We turn TO God.
Then we see…
LIGHT.
God must think, “Aren’t these funny creatures? I was here all along but they can’t see me until they get to the point where they are miserable.”
Too bad we don’t turn to God when we first notice the mess.
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