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June WOW Book Club
June 26, 2025 @ 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
WOW Book Club is a chance to stay connected with your WOW friends—or make new ones—but because schedules are crazy in the summer, it’s just once a month. June’s book selection is “Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith” by Anne Lamott.
WHEN: Thursday, June 26
TIME: 6:30 p.m.
WHERE: The Home of Jodi Christensen
From Amazon:
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the acclaimed author of Bird by Bird comes a personal, wise, very funny, and “life-affirming” book that shows us how to find meaning and hope through shining the light of faith on the darkest part of ordinary life.
Lamott claims the two best prayers she knows are: “Help me, help me, help me” and “Thank you, thank you, thank you.”
Despite—or because of—her irreverence, faith is a natural subject for Anne Lamott. Since Operating Instructions and Bird by Bird, her fans have been waiting for her to write the book that explained how she came to the big-hearted, grateful, generous faith that she so often alluded to in her two earlier nonfiction books. The people in Anne Lamott’s real life are like beloved characters in a favorite series for her readers—her friend Pammy, her son, Sam, and the many funny and wise folks who attend her church are all familiar. And Traveling Mercies is a welcome return to those lives, as well as an introduction to new companions Lamott treats with the same candor, insight, and tenderness.
Lamott’s faith isn’t about easy answers, which is part of what endears her to believers as well as nonbelievers. Against all odds, she came to believe in God and then, even more miraculously, in herself. As she puts it, “My coming to faith did not start with a leap but rather a series of staggers.”