39 and a Challenge.

I recently joined the Summer Reading Challenge and my challenge to myself is to read two books a week, one fiction, one non-fiction this summer. 

I finished this weeks non fiction entry, Anne Lamott's wonderful collection of essays:Plan B, Further Thoughts on Faith.  Some of these essays are very hard to read, painful even, but every one of them is finely crafted and deeply moving.  Her writing is from a Christian perspective but this isn't an obstacle for me, as a Jew, to hear the truth in them.  In one essay, titled Loving Your President:Day 2, she writes of how hard it is to love Bush and how frustrating it was to hear her pastor point out that G-d loves all of us, including Bush.  She writes, "This drives me crazy, that G-d seems to have no taste, and no standards.  Yet on most days, this is what gives some of us hope."

Her essays give me hope that with all our flaws and bad energy and worse choices, with a little  grace we can still raise our children, love our family and friends and most importantly ourselves enough to make the world a little bit better a place. 

Comments

[the stripey tiger]

TWO A WEEK!!!! OMG !!!
You go girl! lol stripey