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By Anne Lamott

Look out for Anne's most recent book, Hallelujah Anyway, on sale now.

New York Times Bestseller

Author Anne Lamott writes in regards to the 3 basic prayers necessary to coming via difficult occasions, tough days and the hardships of day-by-day life.

Readers of every age have and loved Anne Lamott’s humorous and perceptive writing approximately her personal religion via many years of trial and mistake. And in her new ebook, Help, thank you, Wow, she has coalesced every thing she understands approximately prayer to those fundamentals.

It is those 3 prayers – requesting the help of the next energy, appreciating what we now have that's solid, and feeling awe on the international round us – which may get us throughout the day and will express us the best way ahead. In support, thank you, Wow, Lamott recounts how she got here to those insights, explains what they suggest to her and the way they've got helped, and explores how others have embraced those related ideas.

Insightful and sincere as in simple terms Anne Lamott might be, Help, thank you, Wow is the typical religion booklet that new Lamott readers will love and longtime Lamott lovers will treasure.

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All done. Go away. ” It is us, the damaged, hopeless people, lifting up our hope, hate, gratitude, fear, and shame, saying, Boy, do we hope we are right about this God stuff. Someone has a baby, or pulls the trigger, or snatches the money, or picks up the drink or doesn’t, or makes it to the shore, and everything sorts itself out, or falls apart, and through it we pray, Help, help, help. Thank you. Wow. Amen. . And then two hours or two days later, Help. We are saved by memories of love and beauty—maybe there’s more of that to come, if we keep on keeping on.

Over and over when I went to New York for the first time, and when I saw a bay in Mexico carpeted with dolphins. I said “God” at my own house when a family friend, a man of eighty, recited Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” one drunken evening with twenty old friends gathered around. That tableau is like a thumbprint on my heart. People tell you stories over the years of such astonishing mystery or perfidy that you never forget them. Ten or fifteen years ago, my friend Neshama, who had just gotten back from Mexico, told me about one full-moon night while she was there: In the town square was a bull ring, with people drinking beer and being boisterous and incredibly loud, and bulls shuffling around in the dust, and music blaring, and food pouring out from everywhere.

Poetry is the official palace language of Wow. Buds opening and releasing, mud and cutting winds, bright green grass and blue skies, nests full of baby birds. All of these are deserving of Wow—even though I have said elsewhere that spring is also about deer ticks—and everywhere you look, couples are falling in love, and the air is saturated with the scent of giddiness and doom. Petals are wafting and falling slowly through the air, and there is something so Ravel, languorous, reminding me to revel in the beauty of things wafting.

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