“Filled with Lamott's unique brand of humor, wisdom and profound spiritual insight… She has a gift for putting into words what it means to accept and ultimately embrace the beauty, mystery, and pain that is life.” 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. 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 Lamotts funny and perceptive writing about her own faith through decades of trial and error. It is the grace that comes from a practiced and open dialogue with the God of the universe, who despite our shortfalls and earthy ties, listens and hears our concerns and praises, at any time we wish to utter them.Ī New York Times bestseller from the author of Dusk, Night Dawn, Hallelujah Anyway, Bird by Bird, and Almost Everything.Īuthor Anne Lamott writes about the three simple prayers essential to coming through tough times, difficult days and the hardships of daily life. non-Christian audience) but in her brusqueness one also finds a clear reflection of grace. Lamott's stark reflections on prayer and life are almost too honest, and they're not for everyone, (she often uses strong language and writes for a broad, i.e. With her trademark gritty honesty, Lamott shares what she's learned in her prayer journey, from the first time she prayed secretly as a child so her atheist parents wouldn't find out, to her prayers for when life doesn't make sense, like when a friend has cancer. It is with this sentiment that New York Times bestselling author Anne Lamott begins her exploration of prayer. "I do not know much about 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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