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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... tell you it has taken me all my life to arrive at the vision of gas lamps as angels, to soften and blur and finally banish the edges you regret I don't see, to learn that the line I called the horizon does not exist and sky and water ...
... tell you it has taken me all my life to arrive at the vision of gas lamps as angels, to soften and blur and finally banish the edges you regret I don't see, to learn that the line I called the horizon does not exist and sky and water ...
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... tell.” I, on the other hand, am an instant-message type. It took decades for Bush to destroy the Iraqi army in three weeks. But I prayed: Help me. And then I drove to the market in silence, to buy my birthday dinner. I flirted with ...
... tell.” I, on the other hand, am an instant-message type. It took decades for Bush to destroy the Iraqi army in three weeks. But I prayed: Help me. And then I drove to the market in silence, to buy my birthday dinner. I flirted with ...
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... tell you how to eat it.” Something told Rahab that if she aligned herself with the people who had been brought so far by faith, she would be safe as well. This gave her the radical conviction that she should be cared for. Rahab believed ...
... tell you how to eat it.” Something told Rahab that if she aligned herself with the people who had been brought so far by faith, she would be safe as well. This gave her the radical conviction that she should be cared for. Rahab believed ...
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... Then I lay facedown on the bed. The kitty tried to comfort me but accidentally started chewing the red cord off my wrist. Jack came into my mind. What would he do? It's hard to tell with him. Once I called to 23 red cords.
... Then I lay facedown on the bed. The kitty tried to comfort me but accidentally started chewing the red cord off my wrist. Jack came into my mind. What would he do? It's hard to tell with him. Once I called to 23 red cords.
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Further Thoughts on Faith Anne Lamott. It's hard to tell with him. Once I called to say hello, and he was making liver and onions. Usually he suggests that I be kind, and breathe, and take a walk. So I did. It was drizzling outside, but ...
Further Thoughts on Faith Anne Lamott. It's hard to tell with him. Once I called to say hello, and he was making liver and onions. Usually he suggests that I be kind, and breathe, and take a walk. So I did. It was drizzling outside, but ...
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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