susie

plan b...anne lamott

a long time ago i believed that there was a plan A for the good people and and Plan B for the rest of us, or at least for me, who would never be good enough.  i had made that one mistake that had surely moved me from G-d's Plan A path to the lesser and more challenging Plan B path.  this was my adolescent explanation for the struggle, frustration, disappointment and sorrow in my life... it was simply my fault...i had blown it and was therefore relegated to Plan B...and i convinced myself that i simply needed to try harder, to do better, to do more, in order to get the best Plan B, because i wasn't sure that i could ever get back to Plan A which is what the good people had, and what i really wanted...

anne lamott's new book

so anne lamott thinks there may be a plan b as well...

that is the title of her new book:  Plan B: Further Thoughts On Faith

i have only just begun it, but its anne lamott...so it's right on the money and full of yeah me toos.  one thing she says that resonates:  "Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort and letting it be there until some light returns." 

i love this expressive description of waiting in the midst...of being in the moments rather than trying to brush past them, sweep them under the rug and deny them all together, or even to force light when shadows are best for the moment...

her tidbits of wisdom are woven in her wonderful prose...enjoy!

available @ amazon