There are moments when prayer is a whisper and days when you’ve just got to shout! Help me, God. We all have those days, those times when life seems too much and overwhelming, yet a blessing while it feels like a curse. Or maybe, miraculously, we just release our grip slightly” (5). It begins with stopping in our tracks, or with our backs against the wall, or when we are just so sick and tired of being psychically sick and tired that we surrender, or at least we finally stop running away and at long last walk or lurch or crawl toward something. “Prayer,” she says, “can be motion and stillness and energy – all at the same time. I was reading Anne Lamott’s new book, a slim volume, called, “Help, Thanks, Wow: The Three Essential Prayers.” In her typical style of lengthy run-on sentences filled with self-deprecating humor, raw honest emotion, and startling insight, Lamott focuses in on these three repeating themes of prayer: Help, Thanks, Wow. It was late and we were both tired, but I knew we might be there for hours, so on the way out the door I grabbed a book. So, at 10PM, as it continued to rise, I bundled her up and we took off for the Urgent Care clinic. Amen.Ī few weeks ago, my 2 year-old daughter had a fever that kept climbing and climbing and wouldn’t stop. In the name of God: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. But you have kept the good wine until now.” Jesus did this, the first of his signs, in Cana of Galilee, and revealed his glory and his disciples believed in him. When the steward tasted the water that had become wine, and did not know where it came from (though the servants who had drawn the water knew), the steward called the bridegroom and said to him, “Everyone serves the good wine first, and then the inferior wine after the guests have become drunk. He said to them, “Now draw some out, and take it to the chief steward.” So they took it. Jesus said to them, “Fill the jars with water.” And they filled them up to the brim. When the wine gave out, the mother of Jesus said to him, “They have no wine.” And Jesus said to her, “Woman, what concern is that to you and to me? My hour has not yet come.” His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever he tells you.” Now standing there were six stone water jars for the Jewish rites of purification, each holding twenty or thirty gallons. Jesus and his disciples had also been invited to the wedding. On the third day there was a wedding in Cana of Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there.

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