"Lent began and I was asking Jesus to help me see that it's madness to have such overt hostility to Republicans, and I was praying to Jesus to make me more like Him, welcoming all beings, even Pat Buchanan. Because that is the truth: Jesus welcomes Pat Buchanan in exactly the same way that he welcomes my tiny princess self, even though Pat Buchanan is batshit crazy."
–Anne Lamott
Anne–a favorite of mine--once told a group in Indianapolis that she was not one of those Christians who is heavily into forgiveness. Someone asked then, "What kind of Christian are you? She said, "I'm the other kind."
After that, and a less than glowing review she had written about Pat Buchanan’s latest book, she was attacked repeatedly in a flood of phone calls. Voices filled with hate told her she would rot before the Judgment Seat of God, and all the variant forms Christian hate can take. After several such calls, she found herself enraged by these people and their attitudes.
"I finally found the phone and hung it up and stood there in the bedroom and realized that there was no difference between my callers and me, that we were both trapped by rage and judgment and profound lack of willingness to forgive.
And it was at that moment that Lent actually started for me, and once again I became so relieved that I have a Savior."
I wonder if her callers likewise came to their Christian senses.
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