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Help, Thanks, Wow: The Three Essential Prayers by Anne Lamott

4.0

This book spoke to me, in a way I view not only prayer, but my own belief system. The simple Help, Thanks and Wow boils down to the surrender to life and to trust in the beauty against the pain. In letting go of control, in surrender we trust in a greater power. We seek not meaning, but believe in the meaning of things and we say thank you at the revelation that comes in life's experiences. At the same time, we allow ourselves to wonder, to be taken a back by the beauty of life---its ability to get back up despite the most tragic of experiences.
In the practice of these 'prayers' Lamott is able to move us towards the simple appreciation of life and living.