Lighting a candle today for Flannery O’Connor, who died on Aug 3 1964 at age 39, whose letters “The Habit of Being” changed my life. Faith, she showed, is not so much a matter of believing certain things but seeing the world in a certain way, living in the light of that vision.

Aug 3, 2019 · 11:57 AM UTC

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“Even in the life of a Christian, faith rises and falls like the tides of an invisible sea. It's there, even when he can't see it or feel it, if he wants it be there.”—Flannery O’Connor, d 8/3/64
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The subject of my Masters' Thesis at San Jose State. Loved her work, but her essays and letters are sublime!
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What a great human being. And a great writer.
This book is always at my bedside.
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Her fiction's not bad, either.
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