01847cam a2200313 i 4500 291051216 TxAuBib 20170426120000.0 160809s2017||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2016036301 9780735213586 hardcover $20.00 0735213585 hardcover $20.00 TxAuBib rda Lamott, Anne. Hallelujah anyway : rediscovering mercy / Anne Lamott. Hardcover - orange spine - black letters. New York : Riverhead Books, 2017. ℗2017. 176 pages ; 21 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier The mercy workshop -- Life cycles -- Gold leaf -- Destinations -- Impatiens -- Planes -- As is -- Mostly -- The open drawer. "Mercy is radical kindness," Anne Lamott writes in latest 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. 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.". 20170426. Mercy. Self-help publications. TXMLR