Help, thanks, wow : the three essential prayers / Anne Lamott.
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TextPublication details: New York : Riverhead Books, 2012.Description: 102 p. ; 22 cmISBN: - 1594631298
- 9781594631290
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Three simple prayersto get youthrough tough times, everyday struggles,and the hard workof ordinarylife.
Readers of all ages have followed and cherished Anne Lamott's funny and perceptive writing about her own faith and prayer.And in Help, Thanks, Wow , she has coalesced everything she's learnedabout prayer into these simple transformative truths.
It is these three prayers - asking for assistance, appreciating the good we witness, and feeling awe at the world-that can get us through the day and show us the way forward. In Help, Thanks, Wow , Lamott recounts how she came to these insights, explains what they have meant to her over the years and how they have helped, and explores how others have embraced these same ideas.
Insightful and honest as only Anne Lamott can be, Help, Thanks, Wow is a book that new Lamott readers will love and longtime Lamott fans will treasure.
"I do not know much about God and prayer, but I have come to believe, over the last twenty-five years, that there's something to be said about keeping prayer simple" -- Cover verso.
Lamott has coalesced everything she knows about prayer to three simple fundamentals. Asking for assistance from a higher power, appreciating what we have that is good, and feeling awe at the world around us-- that can get us through the day and can show us the way forward. Lamott recounts how she came to these insights, explains what they mean to her and how they have helped, and explores how others have embraced these same ideas.