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Anne Lamott
A memoir of spiritual journey told through interconnected essays, exploring the author's path to faith through various religious traditions and life experiences, written in Lamott's intimate and reflective voice.
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What this book knows
Grace arrives uninvited, in ruined bodies and off-key churches, and that is exactly why it saves you.
faith-and-doubt
Mine was a patchwork God, sewn together from bits of rag and ribbon, Eastern and Western, pagan and Hebrew, everything but the kitchen sink and Jesus.
TM-RC-027The church smelled wonderful, like the air had nourishment in it, or like it was composed of these people's exhalations, of warmth and faith and peace.
TM-RC-031Abraham understood that all he really had in life was God's unimaginable goodness and love, God's promise of protection, God's paradoxical promise.
TM-RC-018James dipped his hand into the font, bathed my forehead with cool water, and spoke the words of Langston Hughes: one handful of dream-dust, not for sale.
TM-RC-034shame
I just felt shame that I had disappointed them again, and I felt that if I could do a little better, Mom and Dad would get along again.
TM-RC-013grief
She'd been up and around all morning, trying out the guest bed here and then there, putting it near the window, wanting the sun to fall on her sister just so.
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