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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... things that don't come easily, such as starting a Sunday school for kids at her church or wearing an outfit for a friend's wedding that makes her look like Dame Edna. In these essays, we're to understand that the world is still full of ...
... things that don't come easily, such as starting a Sunday school for kids at her church or wearing an outfit for a friend's wedding that makes her look like Dame Edna. In these essays, we're to understand that the world is still full of ...
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... thing is to put oneself in a frame of mind which is close to that of prayer.” I closed my eyes, and got quiet. I tried to look like Mother Mary, with dreadlocks and a bad back. But within seconds, I was frantic to turn on the TV. I was ...
... thing is to put oneself in a frame of mind which is close to that of prayer.” I closed my eyes, and got quiet. I tried to look like Mother Mary, with dreadlocks and a bad back. But within seconds, I was frantic to turn on the TV. I was ...
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... things about God—is that He or She rarely answers right away. It can take days, weeks. Some people seem to understand this—that life and change take time. Chou En-lai, when asked, “What do you think of the French Revolution?” paused for ...
... things about God—is that He or She rarely answers right away. It can take days, weeks. Some people seem to understand this—that life and change take time. Chou En-lai, when asked, “What do you think of the French Revolution?” paused for ...
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... they thanked me, remembering the wreck I'd been when I first started coming to St. Andrew, a year before I got sober. Then I went home and had a huge fight with Sam. It's hard to imagine things can get so ugly so 22 plan b.
... they thanked me, remembering the wreck I'd been when I first started coming to St. Andrew, a year before I got sober. Then I went home and had a huge fight with Sam. It's hard to imagine things can get so ugly so 22 plan b.
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Further Thoughts on Faith Anne Lamott. It's hard to imagine things can get so ugly so quickly, just because the word “homework” has come up, but they do. I was savoring my morning in church, while making us sandwiches, when Sam ...
Further Thoughts on Faith Anne Lamott. It's hard to imagine things can get so ugly so quickly, just because the word “homework” has come up, but they do. I was savoring my morning in church, while making us sandwiches, when Sam ...
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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