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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... pray, and remains brutally honest about her failings. We definitely owe her thanks. Just like her other works, Plan B brings joy indeed.” —Miami Herald “Lamott keeps trying to lead a good life, even when that involves doing things that ...
... pray, and remains brutally honest about her failings. We definitely owe her thanks. Just like her other works, Plan B brings joy indeed.” —Miami Herald “Lamott keeps trying to lead a good life, even when that involves doing things that ...
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... pray for. Peace? Well, whatever. So the morning of my birthday, because I couldn't pray, I did what Matisse once said to do: “I don't know if I believe in God or not.... But the essential thing is to put oneself in a frame of mind which ...
... pray for. Peace? Well, whatever. So the morning of my birthday, because I couldn't pray, I did what Matisse once said to do: “I don't know if I believe in God or not.... But the essential thing is to put oneself in a frame of mind which ...
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... day that I felt my prayers were sent, and then received—like e-mail. I tried to cooperate with grace, which is to say, I did not turn on the TV. I asked God to help me again. The problem with God—or at any rate, plan b.
... day that I felt my prayers were sent, and then received—like e-mail. I tried to cooperate with grace, which is to say, I did not turn on the TV. I asked God to help me again. The problem with God—or at any rate, plan b.
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... prayed: Help me. And then I drove to the market in silence, to buy my birthday dinner. I flirted with everyone in the store, especially the old people, and I lightened up. When the checker finished ringing up my items, she looked at my ...
... prayed: Help me. And then I drove to the market in silence, to buy my birthday dinner. I flirted with everyone in the store, especially the old people, and I lightened up. When the checker finished ringing up my items, she looked at my ...
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... I think it must be true—that when you pray, you are not starting the conversation from scratch, just remembering to plug back into a conversation that's always in progress. There I sat on the hill, hands folded in my 25 red cords.
... I think it must be true—that when you pray, you are not starting the conversation from scratch, just remembering to plug back into a conversation that's always in progress. There I sat on the hill, hands folded in my 25 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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