false <![CDATA[Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166504425m/12535.jpg 12535 10 Few people can write about faith, parenting, and relationships as can the talented, irreverent Anne Lamott. With characteristic black humor, ("Everyone has been having a hard time with life this year; not with all of it, just the waking hours") she updates us on the ongoing mayhem of her life since <i>Traveling Mercies</i>, and continues to unfold her spiritual journey. <p> <i>Plan B</i> finds Lamott wrestling with mid-life hormones and weight gain while parenting Sam, now a teenager with his own set of raging hormones. Her observations cover everything from starting a Sunday school to grief over the death of her beloved dog, Sadie; lamenting the war to bitterness over her relationship with her now-departed mother. <p> As she tugs and pokes out the knots in a slender gold chain necklace, it becomes a metaphor for letting go and learning to forgive. "&#8230;<i>any</i> willingness to let go inevitably comes from pain; and the desire to change changes you, and jiggles the spirit, gets to it somehow, to the deepest, hardest, most ruined parts." It's her willingness to show us the knotted-up, "ruined parts" of her life that make this collection of sometimes uneven essays so compelling. <p> "Everything feels crazy," writes Lamott, adding, "But on small patches of earth all over, I can see just as much messy mercy and grace as ever&#8230;." Lamott's essays will serve as reminders to readers of the patches of messy mercy and grace in a chaotic world.--<i>Cindy Crosby</i> 14828 2004 Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith total:3220|5:858|4:1277|3:865|2:186|1:34| 3220 12399 4077 414 5 1 false false Thu Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Mon Mar 26 16:18:50 -0700 2007 Mon Mar 26 16:25:29 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat Jul 14 19:24:08 -0700 2007 Sat Jul 14 19:36:15 -0700 2007 more...]]> 0 0 false false Thu Feb 05 09:31:24 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 09:31:24 -0800 2009 Traveling Mercies chronicled Lamott's slow journey toward faith. Now in her 50s, Lamott still insists upon sugarcoating nothing in this enlightening update. She combines brilliant sparks of wit, self-deprecating humor, wisdom, and appreciation in these 24 essays, previously published in Salon (see http://dir.salon.com/topics/anne_lamott/...

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- peace is joy at rest and joy is peace on its feet.
- forgiveness means it's finally unimportant that you hit back.
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