Hallelujah Anyway: Rediscovering Mercy

ôAnne Lamott is my Oprah.ö ùChicago Tribune The New York Times bestseller from the author of Dusk, Night, Dawn, Almost Everything and Bird by Bird, a powerful exploration of mercy and how we can embrace it. "Mercy is radical kindness," Anne Lamott writes in her enthralling and heartening book, Hallelujah Anyway. It's the permission you give othersùand yourselfùto forgive a debt, to absolve the unabsolvable, to let go of the judgment and pain that make life so difficult. In Hallelujah Anyway: Rediscovering Mercy Lamott ventures to explore where to find meaning in life. We should begin, she suggests, by "facing a great big mess, especially the great big mess of ourselves." It's up to each of us to recognize the presence and importance of mercy everywhereù"within us and outside us, all around us"ùand to use it to forge a deeper understanding of ourselves and more honest connections with each other. While that can be difficult to do, Lamott argues that it's crucial, as "kindness towards others, beginning with myself, buys us a shot at a warm and generous heart, the greatest prize of all." Full of LamottÆs trademark honesty, humor and forthrightness, Hallelujah Anyway is profound and caring, funny and wiseùa hopeful book of hands-on spirituality.

• | Author: Anne Lamott
• | Publisher: Riverhead Books
• | Publication Date: Apr 04, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 192 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/Body, Mind & Spirit
• | ISBN-10: 0735213585
• | ISBN-13: 9780735213586