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Chargement... Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith (original 1999; édition 2000)par Anne Lamott
Information sur l'oeuvreTraveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith par Anne Lamott (1999)
   Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre.   ) rebwaring | Aug 14, 2023 |   ) rumbledethumps | Jun 26, 2023 | ) dinahmine | Apr 26, 2023 | Fundamentalists and conservative evangelicals would probably object to some of the author's lifestyle, past and present, and her fairly liberal, relaxed theology. But I thought her ideas were interesting, I appreciated her extreme honesty, and found some of her insecurities and observations poignant. Recommended. Longer review here: https://suesbookreviews.blogspot.com/2023/03/traveling-mercies-by-anne-lamott.ht... (  ) SueinCyprus | Mar 18, 2023 | Traveling Mercies is a collection of autobiographical essays by Anne Lamott in which she explores her life without God, her road to faith, and her continuing struggle to live a life worthy of the beliefs she holds. It is not the story of her life, there are uncovered gaps that we know are there, but it is the story of her soul, and that, I would argue, is more important. With a little touch of Erma Bombeck, and an ability to look at the ugly and petty, along with the sublime of her life, she achieves a lot in terms of inspiring without resorting to even a moment of preaching. I love her descriptions of the people she has met along her journey: her best friend, Pammy, the elderly black church member, Mary Williams, who gives her bags of dimes to help her through her broke (and sometimes broken) days; her father, whose death devastated her life, and her son, Sam, who colors it. Some of her words seem written just for me. I lost my father and mother two months apart in 1994 and all these years later I feel the homesickness for them in ways I cannot convey to anyone: Twenty years ago. For twenty years I have ached to go back home, when there was nobody there to whom I could return. I believe she has tapped the code to grief, a kind of spector that comes and goes in your life, but never entirely dies away: All those years I fell for the great palace lie that grief should be gotten over as quickly as possible and as privately. But what I've discovered since is that the lifelong fear of grief keeps us in a barren, isolated place and that only grieving can heal grief; the passage of time will lessen the acuteness, but time alone, without the direct experience of grief, will not heal it." and, Sometimes grief looks like narcolepsy. But, lest you think this is a book about death or grief, I will share the following except, which will prove that this is just a book about insight, humanity, and grace. I can't imagine anything but music that could have brought about this alchemy. Maybe it's because music is about as physical as it gets; your essential rhythm is your heartbeat; your essential sound, the breath. We're walking temples of noise, and when you add tender hearts to this mix, it somehow lets us meet in places we couldn't get to any other way. ( ) mattorsara | Aug 11, 2022 | aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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HTML:NATIONAL BESTSELLER • At once tough, personal, affectionate, wise, and very funny, a book that tells in exuberant detail how to shine the light of faith on the darkest part of ordinary life, exposing surprising pockets of meaning and hope. "Anne Lamott is walking proof that a person can be both reverent and irreverent in the same lifetime. Sometimes even in the same breath." —San Francisco Chronicle Anne Lamott claims the two best prayers she knows are: "Help me, help me, help me" and "Thank you, thank you, thank you." She has a friend whose morning prayer each day is "Whatever," and whose evening prayer is "Oh, well." Anne thinks of Jesus as "Casper the friendly savior" and describes God as "one crafty mother." Despite—or because of—her irreverence, faith is a natural subject for Anne Lamott. Since Operating Instructions and Bird by Bird, her fans have been waiting for her to write the book that explained how she came to the big-hearted, grateful, generous faith that she so often alluded to in her two earlier nonfiction books. The people in Anne Lamott's real life are like beloved characters in a favorite series for her readers—her friend Pammy, her son, Sam, and the many funny and wise folks who attend her church are all familiar. And Traveling Mercies is a welcome return to those lives, as well as an introduction to new companions Lamott treats with the same candor, insight, and tenderness. Lamott's faith isn't about easy answers, which is part of what endears her to believers as well as nonbelievers. Against all odds, she came to believe in God and then, even more miraculously, in herself. As she puts it, "My coming to faith did not start with a leap but rather a series of staggers.". Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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