It is the prayer of her grandfather, a missionary. It is praying that God will help others facing the same kinds of stuff, or just trying to make it through life. It is the prayer when we are mired in broken relationships, debt, or a scary medical diagnosis. Help is the prayer when you hit rock bottom and know that all your efforts to run life or fix someone else’s just aren’t working. All of it is free of spiritual jargon, evident in her title summarizing what she thinks are three essential prayers in three words. And she began writing about it in her unpretentious, “this is who I am and my best shot at explaining what I’ve come to understand and what God still hasn’t made sense out of.” In this book, she does that with prayer and, along the way, narrating her own experiences in prayer. Summary: The author’s account of what it is for her to pray and three types of prayer that, for her, describe what it means to pray.Īnne Lamott hit bottom in her own life, struggling with alcoholism and drug abuse, and out of this came to faith as a Christian. Help Thanks Wow: The Three Essential Prayers, Anne Lamott.
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