Plan B: Further Thoughts on FaithFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Hallelujah Anyway, Bird by Bird, and Almost Everything, a spiritual antidote to anxiety and despair in increasingly fraught times. As Anne Lamott knows, the world is a dangerous place. Terrorism and war have become the new normal. Environmental devastation looms even closer. And there are personal demands on her faith as well: getting older; her mother's Alzheimer's; her son's adolescence; and the passing of friends and time. Fortunately for those of us who are anxious about the state of the world, whose parents are also aging and dying, whose children are growing harder to recognize as they become teenagers, Plan B offers hope that we’re not alone in the midst of despair. It shares with us Lamott's ability to comfort and to make us laugh despite the grim realities. Anne Lamott is one of our most beloved writers, and Plan B is a book more necessary now than ever. It is further evidence that, as The New Yorker has written, "Anne Lamott is a cause for celebration." |
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... spirits.” —Chicago Sun-Times “There is much our country could absorb from an aging, loving, liberal crank from Marin County who once started a Sunday school even though it turned out that I did not like children, or at any rate, they ...
... spirits.” —Chicago Sun-Times “There is much our country could absorb from an aging, loving, liberal crank from Marin County who once started a Sunday school even though it turned out that I did not like children, or at any rate, they ...
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... spirit and grief, and spilled them onto her pages.” —The New York Times Book Review “Anne Lamott is walking proof that a person can be both reverent and irreverent in the same lifetime. Sometimes even in the same breath.” –San Francisco ...
... spirit and grief, and spilled them onto her pages.” —The New York Times Book Review “Anne Lamott is walking proof that a person can be both reverent and irreverent in the same lifetime. Sometimes even in the same breath.” –San Francisco ...
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... center he founded nearby. He teaches his students, and has taught me, to slow down, breathe, and take care of everyone, which is of course the same message Jesus taught—that breath is our connection to holy spirit, to our.
... center he founded nearby. He teaches his students, and has taught me, to slow down, breathe, and take care of everyone, which is of course the same message Jesus taught—that breath is our connection to holy spirit, to our.
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... spirit, to our bodies, minds, and soul; and that if the devil can't get you to sin, he'll keep you busy. Jack is about my age and height, slight and very Jewish: he brought me homemade chicken soup last time I was sick in bed. He also ...
... spirit, to our bodies, minds, and soul; and that if the devil can't get you to sin, he'll keep you busy. Jack is about my age and height, slight and very Jewish: he brought me homemade chicken soup last time I was sick in bed. He also ...
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... of Jericho. And the walls came a-tumblin' down. But Joshua's soldiers saw the scarlet cord in Rahab's window, and spared those she had gathered inside, and all because she turned to the spirit within her, the secret 21 red cords.
... of Jericho. And the walls came a-tumblin' down. But Joshua's soldiers saw the scarlet cord in Rahab's window, and spared those she had gathered inside, and all because she turned to the spirit within her, the secret 21 red cords.
Contents
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three sams dad | 31 |
seven adolescence | 91 |
eight sincere meditations | 103 |
ten hard rain | 125 |
eleven good friday world | 135 |
twelve diamond heart | 147 |
fourteen joice to the world | 177 |
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