In reading Anne Lamott’s Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith
“It’s funny: I always imagined when I was a kid that adults had some kind of inner toolbox, full of shiny tools: the saw of discernment, the hammer of wisdom, the sandpaper of patience. But then when I grew up I found that life handed you these rusty bent old tools—friendships, prayer, conscience, honesty—and said, Do the best you can with these, they will have to do. And mostly, against all odds, they’re enough.”
I thought about this in the context of our current economic mess, and it seems to me that Anne’s wisdom applies … if not the exact words, the essence does.
We will make it through this mess. We may even be better for it.