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Resource: Books (P40693.0000) Hallelujah Anyway : Rediscovering Mercy     
Author: Lamott, Anne
Publisher: RIVERHEAD BOOKS/PENGUIN PUTNAM, 2017
Length: 176 pages
Heading: 240 — Spirituality
Subjects: Inspirational; Mercy; Spiritual life
Location: BV4647.M4 L36 2017
# Copies: 1
ISBN/ISSN: 9780735213586
Description: From the bestselling author of Help, Thanks, Wow and Bird by Bird comes a powerful exploration of mercy, its limitless (if sometimes hidden) presence, why we ignore it, 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 others — and yourself — to 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 everywhere — "within us and outside us, all around us" — and 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 Lamott’s trademark honesty, humor and forthrightness, Hallelujah Anyway is profound and caring, funny and wise — a hopeful book of hands-on spirituality.
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