On bad days, I could not imagine what he had been thinking.” And she says, the Sunday School lurched forward. We did not exclude anyone, because Jesus didn’t. The women beginning the Sunday School had no real plan or curriculum other than talking about Jesus and serving peanut butter sandwiches and juice boxes. She says, “One day, I could feel something tugging on my inside sleeve, which is the only place I ever hear from God on the shirtsleeve of my heart.” She wanted to make church more fun for her son, and so the adventure began. The Sunday School began with an idea by Anne. One essay describes the establishment of a Sunday School at her church, which apparently is a downtown Presbyterian church in Marin City, California. Lamott is able to turn the mundane of life into spiritual lessons that are at once truthful and funny. A successful author and essayist, she is also a single mother of a teenage boy named Sam, a recovering addict, a Sunday School teacher, friend and believer. |y .i65838324 |i 30738001415859 |l cola |s - |k |u 1 |x 0 |w 0 |v 0 |t 3 |z 05-14-12 |o l |a 813.With a great deal of self-deprecating humor, Anne Lamott continues her essays about the Christian life in Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith. |a Novelists, American |y 20th century |v Biography. |a New York : |b Riverhead Books, |c 2005. |a Plan B : |b further thoughts on faith / |c Anne Lamott. It is further evidence that, as The New Yorker has written, "Anne Lamott is a cause for celebration." It shares with us Lamott's ability to comfort and to make us laugh despite the grim realities.Īnne Lamott is one of our most beloved writers, and Plan B is a book more necessary now than ever. And there are personal demands on her faith as well: getting older her mother's Alzheimer's her son's adolescence and the passing of friends and time.įortunately for those of us who are anxious about the state of the world, whose parents are also aging and dying, whose children are growing harder to recognize as they become teenagers, Plan B offers hope that we’re not alone in the midst of despair. Environmental devastation looms even closer. Terrorism and war have become the new normal.
From the New York Times bestselling author of Hallelujah Anyway, Bird by Bird, and Almost Everything, a spiritual antidote to anxiety and despair in increasingly fraught times.Īs Anne Lamott knows, the world is a dangerous place.
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