vitamin c and zinc.

hello friends.

how are we? i pray all is well in your spheres of life and influence.

I have been on a reading kick lately. haha. I know... imagine that. novel idea.

I have started two books... the first is Anne Lamott's "Traveling Mercies"

and the second is "A Severe Mercy" by Sheldon Vanauken and C.S. Lewis.

Both have treated me well... I am going to focus on Lamott's "Travelling Mercies" in the next few posts.. I use the plural form of post because I hope to write consistently.

This is quite an interesting book. It is the Lamott's story of her life... growing up to the present. It is quite humorous and brutally raw and honest. Lamott talks in depth about her struggles growing up, her addictions to dope, cocaine, alcohol, and sex. She openly and honestly shares from her heart about how painful her life has been. Through it all... she claims she has always had faith... just never practiced it. She always knew there was something bigger than her self... but she was too stubborn or too drunk to let Christ pierce her life. Eventually she got pregnant by a man she never knew. Her friend encouraged her to get an abortion so she did. A week afterward she had not been sober since the abortion, lying awake in her bed she talks about and describes this presence/person/force come into her room and sit at the foot of her bed. Thinking this illusion was from the alcohol and cocaine.... she tried to shrug it off... but it would never go away. She later recognizes and loudly proclaims it was Christ who came into her room to sit with her and console her by his presence... This is the short jist of the book so far... It is quite interesting and openly raw... which is quite refreshing.

More to come.

Blessings.

Abe