Mister God, This Is Anna by Fynn
It's a book that will set your insides right, confirm what you have believed deep in your heart, and gets you smiling...
There are so many things to quote, but I chose a few, like...
Anna believed that 'each and every individual was issued at birth with various bits of glass labelled 'Good', 'Bad', Nasty', etc., etc. People got into the habit of slipping these bits of glass over their inward eye and seeing things according to the color of the glass.' Anna didn't have any bits of glass ''cos I ain't frightened.'
How? why?
The answer to this is so simple - 'It is simply the ability to move out of the "I'm at the center of all things", and to let someone else (in Anna's case it was Mister God) take over.
At another time she talks about how everyone has a triangle. The triangle means that we have to be responsible. 'We've all got to bear the weight of our own actions. We've all got to be responsible - either now or later. We've got to answer Mister God questions all by ourselves.'
I also love what Old Woody tells her: 'Never let anyone rob you of your right to be complete. The daylight is for the brain and the senses, the darkness is for the heart and the wits - Never be afraid. Your brain may fail you one day, but your heart won't.'
And I simply loved this, because it questions and defies narrow conventional morality, which incidentally is what rules us from the time we are born...It is about going to Church -
'The whole business of going to church filled Anna with suspicion. The idea of collective worship went against her sense of private conversations with Mister God. As for going to church to meet Mister God, that was preposterous. For her the whole thing was transparently simple. You went to church to get the message when you were little. Once you had got it, you went out and did something about it. Keeping on going to church was because you hadn't got the message, or didn't understand it, or it was 'just for swank.''
For Anna, to love Mister God was to love all creatures...all.............
------'with all of me' (now there is the catch, wouldn't you say?)