Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith
"Lamott has chronicled her wacky and (sometimes) wild adventures in faith in...the wonderful Grace (Eventually)." (Chicago Sun-Times) In Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith, the author of the bestsellers Traveling Mercies and Plan B delivers a poignant, funny, and bittersweet primer of faith,...
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"Lamott has chronicled her wacky and (sometimes) wild adventures in faith in...the wonderful Grace (Eventually)." (Chicago Sun-Times) In Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith, the author of the bestsellers Traveling Mercies and Plan B delivers a poignant, funny, and bittersweet primer of faith, as we come to discover what it means to be fully alive.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781594482878 (159448287X)
ASIN: 159448287X
Publish date: February 26th 2008
Publisher: Riverhead Trade
Pages no: 272
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Humor,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Writing,
Essays,
Religion,
Christian,
Faith,
Christianity,
Spirituality,
Theology
I love Anne Lamott's writing, so this book was a pretty easy sell. Her brand of spirituality, centered around finding beauty in the day-to-day life, humanizing the divine, and continuing to strive to be your better self really resonates with me. It is completely unashamed without being preachy, and ...
Best part- The illustration she used with her Sunday School kids about letting go. She gripped markers in her hands and then said, Now what happens when we leave here for lunch and I need to take a drink from my juice box? Illustrating that when we are thirsty for God's love, we need to let go of th...
I seem to have forgotten to add this book to my book log, probably because as soon as I finished it, I started reading it again. I can’t write rationally about Lamott anyway; it’s like trying to write logically about your first junior high crush when you are thirteen. Here’s my truth about her: I tr...