Today’s guest quote is by Anne Lamott, from Help Thanks Wow “Thanks” is the short form of the original prayer I used to say in gratitude for any unexpected grace in my life, “Thankyouthankyouthankyou.” As I grew spiritually, the prayer became the more formal Thank you, and now, from the wrinkly peaks of maturity, it is simply Thanks. Now as then, most of the time for me gratitude is a rush of relief that I dodged a bullet—the highway patrol guy didnt notice me speed by, or the dog didnt get hit by someone else speeding by. Or Oh my God, thankyouthankyouthankyou that it was all a dream, my child didnt drown, I didnt pick up a drink or appear on Oprah in underpants with my dreadlocks dropping off my head. These are all DEFCON 1 moments of relief and gratitude worth giving God thanks. The second and third levels of the second great prayer are said with a heaving exhalation of breath, the expulsion of bellows—THANK you, whooooooosh. The constables found my passport. The brakes held. The proliferation of white blood cells was about allergies, not leukemia; the pediatrician canceled the appointment with the head of oncology and instead recommended Benadryl. Oh my God: thanks.”
Posted on: Thu, 01 May 2014 21:03:27 +0000
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