by Anne Lamott
I kept running into people had had read “Traveling Mercies” by Anne Lamont, so while making an Amazon Christmas order for others I snuck in the book for myself. I really enjoyed reading this book. It’s a loose collection of personal essays sprinkled with both humour and sadness, revolving around her personal faith. It’s not what I would call a traditional approach to faith and it’s not, how shall I say it, “the Fox News approach to faithTM“. My favorite quote from the book is this one.
“Our preacher Veronica said recently that this is life’s nature: that lives and hearts get broken — those of people we love, those of people we’ll never meet. She said that the world sometimes feels like the waiting room of the emergency room and that we who are more or less OK for now need to take the tenderest possible care of the more wounded people in the waiting room, until the healer comes. You sit with people, she said, you bring them juice and graham crackers.”
Anne Lamott, Traveling Mercies
That quote sums up the last year very nicely.
I loved Lamott’s complete unapologetic honesty and her way of describing herself.
gloria
on Jan 2nd, 2006
@ 8:55 pm:
great book! I found it refreshing and delighful to spend time with such an un-evangelical believer.