![]() Wow., Lamott offers the latter sort of prayer as essential for renewal and hope, even (or particularly) in life’s most difficult moments. In my middle age, I have embraced two primary forms of prayer: Reciting prayers written by other people (most especially from the Episcopal Church’s Book of Common Prayer), which allows the Spirit to pray in me using words I can’t come up with on my own and brief, spontaneous prayers uttered in response to whatever events, images, and feelings are part of my day. While I am philosophically intrigued by prayer techniques that are more about presence than language, such as centering prayer, I inevitably fall asleep (all that deep breathing). The conversational style of prayer preferred by my evangelical college fellowship often struck me as too outward, too talky. ![]() Wow.: The Three Essential Prayers (Riverhead 2012) with these words: “I do not know much about God and prayer, but I have come to believe, over the past twenty-five years, that there’s something to be said about keeping prayer simple.” Reading that, I silently uttered one of the three prayers that Lamott presents as essential: “Thanks.” The notion that life-changing prayer can be simple was a message I needed to hear. ![]() Wow.: The Three Essential Prayers Anne Lamottīuy now: Amazon ] Kindle ]Īnne Lamott opens her newest book, Help. Disentangled from our Selfish, Controlling, Damaged SelvesĪ Feature Review of Help. ![]()
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