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Traveling Mercies and Mother Teresa

Traveling Mercies

A chronicle of faith and spirituality that is at once tough, personal, affectionate, wise, and very funny. Anne Lamott claims the best two prayers she knows are "Help me, help me, help me" and "Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Despite - or because of - her irreverence and wit, faith is a natural subject for Lamott. With an exuberant mix of passion, insight, and humor, in Traveling Mercies she takes us on a journey through her often troubled past to illuminate her devout but quirky walk of faith. In a narrative spiced with stories and scripture, with diatribes, laughter, and tears, Lamott tells how, against all odds, she came to believe in God and then, even more miraculously, in herself.
Whether writing about her family or her dreadlocks, sick children or old friends, the most religious women of her church or the men she's dated, she shows us the myriad ways her faith sustains and guides her, shining light on the darkest part of ordinary life and exposing surprising pockets of meaning and hope.
Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith by Anne Lamott
ISBN: 0385496095

Mother Teresa's Reaching Out In Love

Mother Teresa wrote nothing for publication, yet in the course of four decades she spoke on countless occasions in more than one hundred countries. Mother Teresa spoke extemporaneously and from the heart. Because she knew exactly what she wanted to say, her words were always to the point and her stories never lengthy.
In order to get her message of compassion across, Mother Teresa would usually adorn her comments with two or three brief tales drawn from her own experience. One hundred and nine of the very best of these are presented here. They are true-life vignettes that highlight the courage and sacrifice of real people: children who spontaneously gave up what they cherished most; women who shared whatever little they possessed with a poorer neighbor; the dying in the streets who, despite their terrible deprivations, managed a smile at the end. Simple yet profound, these stories are imbued with both earthy wit and heavenly wisdom. They enrich, ennoble, and inspire.
Mother Teresa's Reaching Out In Love
ISBN: 0760733724

Karen Armstrong: Spiral Staircase

Karen Armstrong begins this spellbinding story of her spiritual journey with her departure in 1969 from the Roman Catholic convent she had entered seven years before - hoping, but ultimately failing, to find God. Karen Armstrong knew almost nothing of the changed world to which she was returning, and she was tormented by panic attacks and inexplicable seizures.
Armstrong's struggle against despair was further fueled by a string of discouragements - failed spirituality, doctorate, and jobs; fruitless dealings with psychiatrists. Finally, in 1976, Karen Armstrong was diagnosed with epilepsy, given proper treatment, and released from her private hell. Karen Armstrong then began the writing career that would become her true calling, and as she focused on the sacred texts of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, her own inner story began to emerge.
Without realizing it, she had embarked on a spiritual quest, and through it she would eventually experience moments of transcendence - the profound fulfillment that she had not found in long hours of prayer as a young nun.
Powerfully engaging, often heartbreaking, but lit with bursts of humor, The Spiral Staircase is an extraordinary history of self.
Spiral Staircase: My Climb out of Darkness by Karen Armstrong
ISBN: 0385721277

Kirstie Alley: How to Lose Your Ass and Regain Your Life

Kirstie Alley captured our hearts with her award-winning performances on screen. Now Kirstie Alley is poised to do it again as she laughingly explores our American obsession with fat, food, love, sex, beauty, and weight loss.
If anyone in Hollywood knows about weight obsession, it's Kirstie Alley. After she rose to fame on Cheers as the svelte and gorgeous Rebecca Howe, she watched as the tabloids mercilessly chartered her fluctuating weight. Well, look out, Hollywood, because this beloved star is ready to strike back - with a starring role in a new, unscripted comedy series on Showtime calle Fat Actress.
Kirstie Alley plays a fictionalized version of herself as she searches for work and love in the land of glitter and glamour. The show, which promted a huge media buzz when Showtime announced plans for it, premieres just as this witty and wry new book hits bookstores across the nation.
Kirstie Alley's accounting gives readers and intimate look into her life while providing a hilarious view of being overweight in a skinny-obsessed world. Whether readers are struggling with weight or personal integrity - or if they're just looking for love and happiness - they'll identify with Alley's experiences. Kirstie Alley tells it like it is and helps us laugh at ourselves (and others.)
How to Lose Your Ass and Regain Your Life by Kirstie Alley
ISBN: 159486232X