Plan b further thoughts on faith6/20/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() But this is quibbling about a book that is better than brilliant. Care for the least of God's people!" Naturally, some pieces are stronger than others-her wonderful style can come across as a bit mannered, the wrapup a bit forced. Faith is not about how we feel, she shows it is about how we live. Most of these pieces were published in other versions on, and they cover subjects as disparate as the Bush administration the death of Lamott's dog, her mother and a friend life with a teenager and with her 50-year-old thighs-yet each shows how our hearts and lives can go "from parched to overflow in the blink of an eye." What is the secret? Lamott makes us laugh at the impossibility of it all then she assures us that the most profound act we can accomplish on Earth is coming out of the isolation of our minds and giving to one another. These are dessert days." Thankfully, her gift for conveying the workings of grace to left-wing, high-strung, beleaguered people like herself is still intact, as is her ability to convey the essence of Christian faith, which she finds not in dogma but in our ability to open our hearts in the midst of our confusion and hopelessness. "On my forty-ninth birthday, I decided that all of life is hopeless, and I would eat myself to death. To hear her tell it, neither the state of the country nor the state of her nerves has improved, to say the least. , Lamott sends us 24 fresh dispatches from the frontier of her life and her Christian faith. ![]() Five years after her bestselling Traveling Mercies ![]()
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