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Thoughts on Faith 
I would recommend this book to anyone who has past issues that they have struggled with. This is a very candid account of one person's life and the way that they have turned it around. I really liked the honesty, even if I didn't always agree with her position.
New Lamott Fan 
Grace, Eventually is my first experience with Ms. Lamott's writing and it will certainly not be the last. Her self deprecating humor struck a chord and has opened up my own writing to a new dimension.
News to me!
I had never even heard of this author, but somehow...on my bookshelf, there sat "Grace Eventually". I started reading it and found that I was able to relate and experience the author's wisdom and life experiences. I have never had a child, and I admire those who have a good relationship with their offspring. The author shares her love for her son, Sam...He's a lucky guy.
The author does something rarely encountered in contemporary non-fiction, she speaks honestly about the Bush administration with a passionate intelligence that keeps the book from being just another feel good read.
I think you'll like her writing regardless of your political beliefs.
Lessons from Sam, Lily, and Others
What's not to like about Anne Lamott's Grace Eventually? A collection of essays in which she describes moments of spiritual clarity and examples of the divine in daily life, the book is a treasure trove of writings about topics ranging from abortion to euthanasia and lots of good stuff in-between. Through Sam, Lily, her mother, her vast and motley crew of friends, and even those whom she casually encounters, Lamott teaches lots of lessons on grace and love.
Some of the writing made me feel sad (Gertrud's sickness), some mad (the carpet guy), some glad (chirren musings) and some scared (shadows scenario). Although she might irritate and even anger some people with her views on George W. Bush, abortion, and global warming, Lamott makes no claim to be a saint, but rather a person who's doing her best to see God in everything and to do her part in making the world a better place. After assisting with a special-ed dance class and learning that one of the dancers said, "I liked those old ladies! They were helpers, and they danced," Lamott decided on the words that she wanted on her gravestone: "that I was a helper, and that I danced."
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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 mystery, beyond the emotion 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 knows 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 scotch, on the floor, in the silence, in the dark." In Grace (Eventually), 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.
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