7/3/2023 0 Comments Traveling mercies book![]() ![]() Amongst my favourite are Max Lucado “When God whispers your name” and Philip Yancey’s many Christian must-reads. ![]() I was introduced to author who inspires and do good work, such as Corrie Ten Boom, Jackie Pullinger etc. I remembered between 19, I read a lot of books on Christianity and theology. JT advised that I might like Travelling Mercies since I signed up for her World Religion Challenge. ![]() I haven’t heard of Bolano then I have no idea what to choose. JT asked me to choose between The Savage Detective by Roberto Bolano and Traveling Mercies by Anne Lamott. Oldfield of Bibliofreak Blog is clearing her bookshelf and I was drawn out from the lots to choose one book in the list. Yet each step brought me closer to the verdant pad of faith on which I somehow stay afloat today. When I look back at some of these early resting places – the boisterous home of the Catholics, the soft armchair of the Christian Science mom, adoption by ardent Jews – I can see how flimsy and indirect a path they made. Each prepared me for the next leaf on which I would land, in this way I moved across the swamp of doubt and fear. Like lily pad, round and green, these places summoned and then held me up while I grew. ![]() My coming to faith did not start with a leap but rather a series of staggers from what seemed like one safe place to another. ![]()
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