![]() ![]() tags: god, light, prayer, real, truth. Anne Lamott, Help Thanks Wow: The Three Essential Prayers. And in this light, we can see beyond our modest receptors, to what is way beyond us, and deep inside. Light warms, and in most cases it draws us to itself. Anne Lamott, best known for her book about writing, Bird by Bird, has just published her fourth book about faith, Help, Thanks, Wow (Riverhead, 17.95). Insightful and honest as only Anne Lamott can be, this is a book that new Lamott readers will love and longtime Lamott fans will treasure. But like sunflowers we turn toward light. ![]() Help is the first of three eBooks, each covering a single section of Anne Lamott's latest book, Help, Thanks, Wow. 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've helped, and explores how others have embraced these ideas. It is these three prayers - asking for assistance, appreciating the good we witness, and feeling awe at the world - that get us through the day and show us the way forward. ![]() These three simple prayers will get you through tough times, everyday struggles, and the hard work of ordinary life. And in Help, Thanks, Wow she has coalesced everything she's learned about prayer into these simple, transformative truths. Readers of all ages have followed and cherished Anne Lamott's funny and perceptive writing about faith and prayer. 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. ![]()
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