Maybe this is a shift of only eight degrees but it can be a miracle.īy giving thanks we show that we understand that even in the midst of life and all its craziness and unfairness, there are still moments where we can be truly grateful and gratitude helps shift something inside us. We stop the toxic peering and instead turn our eyes to something else: to our feet on the sidewalk, to the middle distance, to the hills, whence our help comes-someplace else, anything else. Praying “Help” means that we ask that Something give us the courage to stop in our tracks, right where we are, and turn our fixation away from the Gordian knot of our problems. God can handle honesty, and prayer begins an honest conversation.Īnne offers these three prayers, Help, Thanks, Wow as the only prayers you will ever need since they get to essence of all matters. Prayer is us-humans merely being, as e.e.cummings puts it -reaching out to something having to do with the eternal, with vitality, intelligence, kindness, even when we are at our most utterly doomed and skeptical. Lamott, in her own inimitable way, has the ability to take on spiritual topics like faith, the spiritual life, and now prayer and tell it straight, without the heady theological language and get right down to the essence of what it means to pray. This new book on prayer, Help, Thanks, Wowis also quite wonderful. Her earlier books Traveling Mercies (2000) and Plan B(2006) were both books that I found to be wise, honest, funny and profound. Insightful and honest as only Anne Lamott can be, Help, Thanks, Wow is the everyday faith book that new Lamott readers will love and longtime Lamott fans will treasure.I have appreciated Anne Lamott’s wisdom and spiritual honesty for quite a while now. In Help, Thanks, Wow, 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.
It is these three prayers – 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.
And in her new book, Help, Thanks, Wow, she has coalesced everything she knows about prayer to these fundamentals. Readers of all ages have followed and cherished Anne Lamott’s funny and perceptive writing about her own faith through decades of trial and error.
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