Grace in the First Person: Growing into Life and Faith

By Lee Knapp

To be comfortable with who you are -- as a person, a friend, a parent, a dreamer -- is a beautiful gift. Grace in the First Person is written by a quirky, straightforward woman who points the way to acceptance. In her stories of ordinary life, you catch glimpses of your own childhood, family, struggles, and passions, and laugh and grow along the way. Knapp's insightful and witty reflections will inspire you with confidence, hope, and a new zest for enjoying the here and now -- and remind you that every situation and every season in life is filled with grace. Book jacket.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0800758137
• ISBN13: 9780800758134
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Fleming H Revell Co
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.3" x 0.8" x 5.5"

Customer Reviews

life's simple pleasures and living through them

I loved this book!! It helped me confirm that my ordinary life is really quite extraordinary....wait...or is it the other way around...?!! I will recommend it to all of my friends.

Insightful and Honest

Lee's writing has that "every woman" quality. Just like Bruce Springsteen has the ability to sing just to me in a crowd of 60 thousand, Lee's writing gives me goosebumps as it seems like she somehow found my life's collection of journals. This book is a feel good, feel real gem. I love her honesty and genuine appreciation for all the little things in life that make up our one big experience here on earth.

Singular Gifts

This book shines from cover to cover. With its careful treatment of humor, depth, the gamut of emotions, _Grace in the First Person_ leaves the reader, regardless of age, reeling. At moments I laughed so hard that unsettling flashbacks to grade-school-lunch-table-milk-out-the-nose-laughing-because-of-a-potty-joke episodes entered my mind. THe author has the ability to keep the reader rapt, and rapped around her finger while taking us through her life in middle-class suburbia. Fine writing. Really fine.

Everyday Miracles

This book is one of those delightful miracles when a writer takes the everyday and gives us transcendance and even the universal. Lee Knapp is a clever and perceptive writer, whose life sounds much like the rest of ours, but who sees it with more humor, clarity, and understanding than we do. This book delivers many rich insights, wrapped in humor or poignancy, and leaves you wanting much more.