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A review by pattydsf
In My Grandmother's House: Black Women, Faith, and the Stories We Inherit by Yolanda Pierce
5.0
Written August 2022, edited Janary 4, 2023
“What I have witnessed in small, aging, and even declining churches across the nation is that true worship distills the power of death and restores life. Healing and joy and catharsis and fellowship and music and laughter and singing are all life-giving. On Sunday mornings, in thousands of unassuming places across this country, there are moments of true worship in which spirit and truth restore the breath of life to those who far too often live on the edges of death. True worship begins first with us showing up and being fully present in the moment. As noisy and chaotic as that small church may seemed, sitting there is worship with the was the first time that week I had felt connected and seen – not just in my role as the preacher for the morning but as a beloved daughter of God.”
I know that I will never remember to write down where I get my book suggestions. I keep lamenting this failure of mine, but I don’t fix it. This book was such a good read, I would like to thank someone for the recommendation.
Instead, I will thank Dr. Pierce for giving me a glimpse of a world I will never enter. My grandmothers were religious, but not like Dr. Pierce’s. She had someone I can only read about.
Books that teach me about others’ lives and experiences are vital to my learning. This book taught me so much about my faith and about G!d. I would like to have some friends read it so that I could talk about the way Dr. Pierce and her grandmother understand Christianity. This is a life affirming, blest book.
I am grateful that Dr. Pierce shared so much of herself.
“What I have witnessed in small, aging, and even declining churches across the nation is that true worship distills the power of death and restores life. Healing and joy and catharsis and fellowship and music and laughter and singing are all life-giving. On Sunday mornings, in thousands of unassuming places across this country, there are moments of true worship in which spirit and truth restore the breath of life to those who far too often live on the edges of death. True worship begins first with us showing up and being fully present in the moment. As noisy and chaotic as that small church may seemed, sitting there is worship with the was the first time that week I had felt connected and seen – not just in my role as the preacher for the morning but as a beloved daughter of God.”
I know that I will never remember to write down where I get my book suggestions. I keep lamenting this failure of mine, but I don’t fix it. This book was such a good read, I would like to thank someone for the recommendation.
Instead, I will thank Dr. Pierce for giving me a glimpse of a world I will never enter. My grandmothers were religious, but not like Dr. Pierce’s. She had someone I can only read about.
Books that teach me about others’ lives and experiences are vital to my learning. This book taught me so much about my faith and about G!d. I would like to have some friends read it so that I could talk about the way Dr. Pierce and her grandmother understand Christianity. This is a life affirming, blest book.
I am grateful that Dr. Pierce shared so much of herself.