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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... turned out that I did not like children, or at any rate, they made me extremely nervous, and I had almost nothing to share with them, except that Jesus loved them, and I did, too, even when I was in a bad mood.” “Lamott employs ...
... turned out that I did not like children, or at any rate, they made me extremely nervous, and I had almost nothing to share with them, except that Jesus loved them, and I did, too, even when I was in a bad mood.” “Lamott employs ...
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... . 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.
... . 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.
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Further Thoughts on Faith Anne Lamott. because she turned to the spirit within her, the secret place that, as Robert Frost wrote, “sits in the middle and knows.” She went on to live a life of great honor, marrying an Israelite and ...
Further Thoughts on Faith Anne Lamott. because she turned to the spirit within her, the secret place that, as Robert Frost wrote, “sits in the middle and knows.” She went on to live a life of great honor, marrying an Israelite and ...
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... turning out like my mother. He can always find the soft parts of me, where there is no turtle shell for protection. Islammed the door and started hitting it with my fist. Then I lay facedown on the bed. The kitty tried to comfort me but ...
... turning out like my mother. He can always find the soft parts of me, where there is no turtle shell for protection. Islammed the door and started hitting it with my fist. Then I lay facedown on the bed. The kitty tried to comfort me but ...
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... turned out to be strangely satisfying—I'm really good at this sort of work. And second, after a while I found myself in a state of joy. I was focused, and it was beautiful up there, and the shit was nearly entirely out of my shoe ...
... turned out to be strangely satisfying—I'm really good at this sort of work. And second, after a while I found myself in a state of joy. I was focused, and it was beautiful up there, and the shit was nearly entirely out of my shoe ...
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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