In this poem, Louise Erdrich explores her relationship with God and spirituality.
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CLEAR ALL
Affliction is often that thing which prepares an ordinary person for some sort of an extraordinary destiny.
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Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
I seemed to hear God saying, ‘Put down your gun and we’ll talk.’
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I gave in, and admitted that God was God.
You are never too old to set another goal, or to dream a new dream.
Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.
Progress means getting nearer to the place you want to be. And if you have taken a wrong turn, then to go forward does not get you any nearer.
Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.
We meet no ordinary people in our lives.
A children’s story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children’s story in the slightest.