Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith (edit title)

Joe A edited the quotations of Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith Tuesday, November 10 2009.

• Added a quotation: “all you have is the moment, and the imperfect love of people.”Anne Lamott

Shelfari edited the description of Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith Saturday, August 1 2009.

• When Anne Lamott was twenty-five, her father died after a long struggle with brain cancer. Over the next few years she herself began to suffer from an overwhelming sense of desperation and fear which she tried to suppress with alcohol and pills. Although she was managing to write and publish successful novels at the time, it was clear that her life was spinning out of control. In Traveling Mercies , a memoir that sparkles with wry wit and compassion, she now writes about this dark period of her life, and of her turn--to her own great surprise--to the community of Christian faith and love she found in a neighborhood church called St. Andrew. In a book that will be cherished by anyone who has pursued a spiritual search down all sorts of unlikely paths, grieved at the death of friends, or felt bewildered at the challenges that daily life presents to love and courage, Anne Lamott presents a wise and often humorous account of living in faith.

Shelfari edited the contributors of Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith Thursday, July 23 2009.

• Added a contributor: Anne Lamott: (Primary Author)