It’s not that interesting to say, “Oh, yeah, well, I believe in God,” or “I try to take care of the hungry,” or “I give away as much as I can because I know that alone will fill me up.” That’s not great footage.“My belief is that when you're telling the truth, you're close to God. But it’s such better news footage to get very hysterical people in what I would think of as insane and hate-filled demonstrations against women’s rights, against Muslims, against gay marriage. I think there are millions and millions and millions of us. What’s it like being a progressive Christian? That is about as faithful and spiritual as I mean. The single most important thing we can do is stop and get off the train of our own obsessive convictions and move into awareness of some sort of presence or the present time, the eternal now - whatever you want to call it - and breathe again.
I just talk about faith or how it animates my life. I mean, I never come on about Jesus or anything like that, though I’m always trying to get people to come to my church because we’re so tiny and we’re always barely able to pay our electric bill. It kind of wakes you back up.Īre you interested in proselytizing? Do you wish more people would turn to faith? 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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