Emphasis Preaching Journal
Anne Lamott, in Traveling Mercies...
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Anne Lamott, in Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith, says the two best
prayers she knows are "Help me, help me, help me," and "Thank you, thank you, thank
you."
There's nothing sophisticated about those prayers. Anyone can pray them. You don't have to have been to seminary -- nor even to Sunday school. And that's precisely the point: "It all depends on faith," as Paul says in Romans 4:16.
Jesus' words to the thief on the cross, "Today you will be with me in Paradise," are a
There's nothing sophisticated about those prayers. Anyone can pray them. You don't have to have been to seminary -- nor even to Sunday school. And that's precisely the point: "It all depends on faith," as Paul says in Romans 4:16.
Jesus' words to the thief on the cross, "Today you will be with me in Paradise," are a