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Lamott's journey towards faith is long and complicated. What are the most important things that contribute to her ultimately becoming a committed believer? Be as specific as possible and be prepared to discuss your response in class.
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Some important things that contributed her becoming a believer was her childhood and her past friends. Every lily pad she landed on brought her closer towards faith and becoming a committed believer.
ReplyDeleteAnnie Lamott in her article titled “Overture: Lily Pads”, she writes about her journey towards faith as a lengthy and difficult road with a series of several resting steps ( lily pads) that were there to help her prepare for the next step. And with each step she was able to shed some of her worries and fears as she turned into a committed believe this steps include; the time she spent with her Catholic friends’ family, the time she spent with Shelly’s Christian Scientist mother, her interaction with Jews whom she admired and became close to, also her encounter with Soren Kierkegaard’s book” Fear and Trembling” which related to her own situation and helped open her eyes and turned into a believer though still with all other troubles surrounding her. Another crucial step is also when she thought that she was dying of an overdose she consciously took the step to seek help from the priest at St Stephens church. Finally the gospel music from St. Andrews Presbyterian church captured and beacon her into church. All through this journey she had a yearning, thirst and believed in something. She secretly prayed and longed for something different but could not act or express it for fear of those around her and her upbringing never allowed for such exploration into belief and religion.
ReplyDeleteIn "Overtures", Lamott's struggle to becoming the perfect believer begins when she is very young. She uses the analogies of lily pads as the steps she took towards her faith and believing in God. I think the most important things that contribute to her being a committed believer would have to be how she surrounded herself with fellow believers. I feel like a lot of her environment influenced her to believe and understand more of her faith. From her friends she was able to learn more about the church and her own faith. Besides her own strive to be an ultimate believer, she had her friends and their families to help her each step.
ReplyDeleteI believe that even though she had all the different religious people around her growing up she truly needed to hit rock bottom in order to become a believer. She had all the opportunity in the world to become a believer in one of the religions she passed on the way but the culture and time she lived in at the time interfered greatly.
ReplyDeleteAnnie lamott in "overture" says that her struggle to have faith started at an early age but every step she took every leap from "lily pads" made her closer to faith. I believe that every single one of those steps and different places she went through her life lead her to her commitment in faith.
ReplyDeleteOne of the most important factors that influenced Lamott to become a believer was the fact that her journey towards faith was made of many little steps. She became a believer because of her struggles in life and because of her exposure to people of different religions, for example the catholic family, the christian scientist, the christian English teacher, the Jews in her dorm, professor Grossman, and Pastor Bill from St. Stephens Church.
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