Grace Thoughts on Faith - Eventually Author:Anne Lamott The world, community, the family, the human heart: these are the beautiful and complicated arenas in which our lives unfold. Wherever you look, there's trouble and wonder, pain and beauty, restoration and darkness -- sometimes all at once. — Yet amid the confusion, if you look carefully, in nature or in the kitchen, in ordinariness or in myst... more »ery, beyond the emotional muck we all slog through, you'll find it eventually: a path, some light to see by, moments of insight, courage, or buoyancy. In other words, grace.
Anne Lamott know and lives by this belief, most of the time. In Grace (Eventually), her brilliant new collection, she recounts the missteps, detours, and roadblocks in her walk of faith.
It's been an erratic journey, and some days go better than others. "I wish grace and healing were more abracadabra kinds of things," she writes. "Also, that delicate silver bells would ring to announce grace's arrival. But no, it's clog and slog and scootch, on the floor, in the silence, in the dark."
Lamott describes how she copes. The challenges seem alternately inconsequential and insurmountable -- the anger engendered by an obstinate carpet salesman or president; the engulfing envy at a friend's professional success; the bewilderment at discovering that a child has grown up or that a friend wants to die on his own terms -- and they are also universal.
Wise and irreverent, poignant and funny, Grace (Eventually) is a primer in faith, as we come to discover what it means to be fully human and alive.« less
Although Lamott is much more religious than I am, I enjoyed her perspective on life and her self-deprecating sense of humor. I also really, really enjoyed her criticisms of Bush and his cronies.
Rebecca Y. reviewed Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith on
As always, Lamott is as insightful as she is funny. Her honesty about her own brokenness is refreshing and gives the reader freedom to be as honest with himself.