Grace (Eventually)

Anne Lamott is still looking for grace – for moments of courage, light, clarity and buoyancy. As she says, “I wish grace and healing were more abracadabra kinds of things. Also that delicate silver bells would ring to announce grace’s arrival. But no, it’s clog and slog and scootch, on the floor, in the silence, in the dark.” In other words, it’s hard work that’s never done.

Lamott’s gifts as a writer rest on her abilities to see herself clearly and talk about her failings and concerns with arresting, often humorous, prose. She struggles with accepting her middle-aged body and face without judging it by the standards of a society obsessed with thin and perfect. She’s been furious with George W. Bush for five years. She notes ruefully ….“truth, which bats last, was pressing through more and more of the confusion and judgment that had blinded me most of my life.”

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