Jesus/God would tell a mother that she is pregnant with a living, pre-born baby that would one day become a fully grown child, if she bothered to asked Him.
God is a God of second chances.
Even the thief/murderer on the cross was forgiven, for he recognized Jesus was God and asked for forgiveness!!
The requirement is to admit you are a sinner and promise to turn your life around and follow Christ.
That night she had a dream that her son was falling down a well and she was reaching out to try to pull him back up and he was reaching up his little hand . . . and you know what her decision was. The book is about his first year.
An old friend of mine and I went to Barnes & Noble at 17th Street when Lamott was speaking and signing books, and there were all these little kids running all around the place--children of women who had read the book.