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Book Review Pro | Karen Pool
Book Review Pro | Karen Pool
Author : Anne Lamott
Genre : Inspirational
In her book, Stitches, Anne Lamott walks us through her spiritual journey, logging life’s wise messages regarding the meaning of suffering. What do we do when life lurches out of balance? How can we stay connected to one another and to what’s truly important when everything seems to go wrong?
Anne Lamott explores how and where we find meaning in our modern, frantic age, especially after loss; and how we ground our spiritual identities in these frazzled times. We begin, she says, by collecting the ripped shreds of our emotional and spiritual fabric and sewing them back together, one stitch at a time.
“Maybe we can all agree that meaning is always going to have to do with love.”.
“Most of us have figured out that we have to do what’s in front of us and keep doing it. We clean up beaches after oil spills. We rebuild whole towns after hurricanes. We return calls and library books. We get people water. Some of us even pray. Every time we choose the good action or response, the decent, the valuable, it builds, incrementally, to renewal, the place of newness, freedom, justice.”
“I learned how to do all the things I had been taught not to do. I learned over the years to accept more and more of myself. . . . Another rule is ‘don’t waste paper,’ but in order to become who I was meant to be, I learned I had to waste more paper to practice memes, false starts and blunders: these are the necessary steps on the route of creativity and emotional growth.”
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