![]() ![]() It’s like getting spritzed with a plant mister. I think every time you see a night sky full of stars, you say, “Wow.” It was so cold here today, I had to get up really early, and I stepped outside, and I was like, “Whooooa!” which is a cousin of “Wow.” It was so crisp, so beautiful. Even people who don’t believe in God or in any kind of higher power notice when their family catches a break: The diagnosis was much better than it could have been it really isn’t a transmission, it’s a timing belt it’s something manageable instead of huge and awful. People say “Thanks” all the time in so many ways. ![]() “Help” is the hardest prayer, and it’s the most poignant. ![]() “Help” is the prayer of surrender and having a real shot at things beginning to change because you’ve finally run out of good ideas. I think sometimes we don’t know that what we’re doing is a form of prayer. How is prayer reducible to these three words? Lamott spoke by phone from her home in the San Francisco Bay area. ![]() The title refers to what she calls her “three essential prayers,” the only ones she has ever needed. 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). ![]()
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