Part Two – THANKS

“Thanks is the short form of the original prayer I used to say for any unexpected grace in my life, Thankyouthankyouthankyou.”

“… most of the time for me gratitude is a rush of relief that I dodged a bullet…”

“In the face of everything, we slowly come through…And at some point, we cast our eyes to the beautiful skies, above all the crap we’re wallowing in, and we whisper, ‘Thank you’.”

“The movement of grace toward gratitude brings us from the package of self-obsessed madness to a spiritual awakening. Gratitude is peace.” 

—-  Anne Lamott

“Prayer is …communication from the heart to that which surpasses understanding…the force that is beyond our comprehension but that in our pain or supplication or relief we don’t need to define or have proof of any established contact.”

“Nothing could matter less than what we call this force.”

“the Really Real”

“the great mystery, or Goodness…the animating energy of love we are sometimes bold enough to believe in; something unimaginably big and not us.”

“Not me”

“I don’t 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.”

Anne Lamott is an American novelist and non-fiction writer. She is also a progressive political activist, public speaker, and writing teacher. Her nonfiction works are largely autobiographical.  Marked by their self-deprecating humor and openness, Lamott’s writings cover such subjects as spirituality, addiction, motherhood, mental illness and religion.