I really did: In my terror, I wondered whether maybe he was smarter than we think he is, and had grasped classified intelligence and nuance in a way that was well above my own understanding or that of our era’s most brilliant thinkers. “But then-a small miracle-I started to believe in George Bush. She is nervous about it and decides to pray in preparation. It occurs as she prepares to go to a peace rally in San Francisco. One of the funniest passages in the book concerns George W. Bush the “what-for” in these essays, but at the same time, she wants to believe that life will be good again. A fervent Democrat and a progressive Christian, she really gives George W. Lamott wrote most of the essays in Plan B during the buildup and the beginning of the Iraq war. And in the midst of his most mind-boggling behavior, she is amazed by his gentleness and his love when he presents her with a diamond heart necklace for Christmas. She describes a walk they were taking when he was annoying her every step of the way, but once they stop for a rest, he wanted to sit in her lap.
She says that Jesus would have been among the people throwing the first stone, if the person being stoned was 13 years old. She is first and foremost a mother, and her thoughts are always with her son Sam and his growing up. On bad days, I could not imagine what he had been thinking.” And she says, the Sunday School lurched forward. We did not exclude anyone, because Jesus didn’t. The women beginning the Sunday School had no real plan or curriculum other than talking about Jesus and serving peanut butter sandwiches and juice boxes. She says, “One day, I could feel something tugging on my inside sleeve, which is the only place I ever hear from God on the shirtsleeve of my heart.” She wanted to make church more fun for her son, and so the adventure began.
The Sunday School began with an idea by Anne. One essay describes the establishment of a Sunday School at her church, which apparently is a downtown Presbyterian church in Marin City, California. Lamott is able to turn the mundane of life into spiritual lessons that are at once truthful and funny. A successful author and essayist, she is also a single mother of a teenage boy named Sam, a recovering addict, a Sunday School teacher, friend and believer. With a great deal of self-deprecating humor, Anne Lamott continues her essays about the Christian life in Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith.
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