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The Three Essential Prayers
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Anne Lamott
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The New York Times best seller from the author of Hallelujah Anyway, Bird by Bird, and Almost Everything
Author Anne Lamott writes about the three simple prayers essential to coming through tough times, difficult days and the hardships of daily life.
Listeners of all ages have followed and cherished Anne Lamott’s funny and perceptive writing about her own faith through decades of trial and error. And in her new audiobook, Help, Thanks, Wow, she has coalesced everything she knows about prayer to these fundamentals.
It is these three prayers - asking for assistance from a higher power, appreciating what we have that is good, and feeling awe at the world around us - that can get us through the day and can show us the way forward. In Help, Thanks, Wow, Lamott recounts how she came to these insights, explains what they mean to her and how they have helped, and explores how others have embraced these same ideas.
Insightful and honest as only Anne Lamott can be, Help, Thanks, Wow is the everyday faith audiobook that new Lamott listeners will love and longtime Lamott fans will treasure.
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- By: Aubrey Sampson
- Narrated by: Aubrey Sampson
- Length: 5 hrs and 5 mins
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When you’re in the midst of suffering, you want answers for the unanswerable, resolutions to the unresolvable. But there is a pathway through this suffering. It’s not easy, but God will use it to lead you toward healing. This path is called lament. In the midst of your darkest times, you will discover that lament leads you back to a place of hope - not because lamenting does anything magical, but because God sings a louder song than suffering ever could, a song of renewal and restoration.
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You will grow up a little in this book
- By J. D. Jones on 06-16-21
By: Aubrey Sampson
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Mended
- Pieces of a Life Made Whole
- By: Angie Smith
- Narrated by: Pam Turlow
- Length: 5 hrs and 12 mins
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There is no one whose brokenness is too broken for God. We know this is true for our friends when we want to encourage them. Yet, when it comes to the places of out innermost sense of regret, we often wonder if it is really true that God can work all things together for good for those who love Him. Angie Smith is one who was quick to encourage a friend, but struggled to believe that God could truly make something spectacular out of her brokenness and disappointments.
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Open Realness
- By Tess on 10-19-24
By: Angie Smith
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Marrow
- A Love Story
- By: Elizabeth Lesser
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Lesser, Sally Field
- Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
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A mesmerizing and courageous memoir: the story of two sisters uncovering the depth of their love through the life-and-death experience of a bone marrow transplant. Throughout her life Elizabeth Lesser has sought understanding about what it means to be true to yourself and, at the same time, truly connected to the ones you love. But when her sister, Maggie, needs a bone marrow transplant to save her life, and Lesser learns that she is the perfect match, she faces a far more immediate and complex question about what it really means to love.
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“ Love came first “
- By marie on 03-26-18
By: Elizabeth Lesser
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Twirl
- A Fresh Spin at Life
- By: Patsy Clairmont
- Narrated by: Patsy Clairmont
- Length: 4 hrs and 54 mins
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Patsy Clairmont loves a good twirl. The kind that will make a child fall to the ground, squeal with laughter, and then want to get up and spin in circles some more! However, there is a twirl where busy schedules and urgency create a different and unwanted variety of dizzy in our lives. Though hurry-up is part of the human dilemma and certain seasons bring more of it than others, if it becomes a lifestyle you might find yourself on the slippery slopes of bitterness, sadness, and depression.
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She's a Gem!
- By Amy Ramirez on 07-29-22
By: Patsy Clairmont
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Here, Now
- Unearthing Peace and Presence in an Overconnected World
- By: Kate Merrick
- Narrated by: Jill Blackwood
- Length: 4 hrs and 30 mins
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In Here, Now, Kate Merrick invites women to stop running away from their actual lives and to instead walk in the peace and fullness God offers when they quiet their souls, listen to what he's saying, and live with brave intentionality.
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No more living for "likes"
- By ClassyAntique on 05-20-20
By: Kate Merrick
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The Way of Abundance
- By: Ann Voskamp
- Narrated by: Ann Voskamp
- Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
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What do you do when you wake up and feel like you're not enough for your life? Or when you look out the kitchen window as dusk falls and wonder how do you live when life keeps breaking your heart? As Ann Voskamp writes, "great grief isn't meant to fit inside your body. It's why your heart breaks." And each of us holds enough brokenness to overflow - to be given as the greatest story of our lives. In 60 vulnerably soulful stories, The Way of Abundance moves from self-weary brokenness to Christ-focused givenness.
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The way of Abundance
- By Amazon Customer on 06-23-18
By: Ann Voskamp
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Great Day Every Day
- Navigating Life's Challenges with Promise and Purpose
- By: Max Lucado
- Narrated by: Wayne Shepherd
- Length: 2 hrs and 33 mins
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The alarm clock rings in a new day and a chance to rejoice in it. After all: "This is the day the Lord has made. We will rejoice and be glad in it."But what about those days when the traffic snarls, airports close, and friends forget? Is there any hope for the days riddled with the hang-ups and bang-ups of life? In Great Day Every Day, Max Lucado unpacks Jesus' blueprint for dealing with such days: Saturate your day in Jesus' grace. Entrust your day to his oversight. Accept his direction. It's the only prescription to fill your day with God-given purpose.
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Good Over Site to look UP not down in Life.
- By B on 07-26-13
By: Max Lucado
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The Mystery
- Finding True Love in a World of Broken Lovers
- By: Lacey Sturm
- Narrated by: Lacey Sturm
- Length: 6 hrs and 17 mins
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Rock princess Lacey Sturm wants to share her journey from heartbreak to wholeness with young women. In The Mystery, Sturm helps listeners understand that any loving relationship begins with knowing your own identity in Christ. And yet, so many people have learned to define love through their own dysfunctional family, unhealthy relationships, the romances and wrecked relationships of mainstream pop culture, or, sadly, through pornography. Is it any wonder so many people end up brokenhearted, divorced, abused, abusive, or even suicidal?
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Wow! Incredibly moving.
- By Mae on 12-30-19
By: Lacey Sturm
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Unreasonable Hope
- Finding Faith in the God Who Brings Purpose to Your Pain
- By: Chad Veach
- Narrated by: Chad Veach
- Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins
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When things go horribly wrong and the world seems to be unraveling, how do you believe in God's goodness? How do you cling to hope? Chad Veach directs listeners away from clichéd Sunday school answers that fail to offer real comfort or provide faith-building insights. Instead he draws from God's promises in the Bible and from the story of his own daughter's diagnosis of a devastating and debilitating disease to reveal simple, purposeful steps for dealing with pain.
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So Passionate!
- By Trevor Tyson on 09-28-16
By: Chad Veach
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Feathers from My Nest
- A Mother's Reflections
- By: Beth Moore
- Narrated by: Beth Moore
- Length: 5 hrs and 14 mins
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Beth Moore is widely known and respected as an engaging and effective speaker, Bible teacher, and bestselling author. Feathers from My Nest reveals a more contemplative and personal side of Beth, very much in the spirit of her work, Things Pondered. Feathers from My Nest is a collection of vignettes, as Beth reflects on items belonging to her daughters who have left the nest for college.
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Delightful!
- By Sheli K Johnson on 10-12-23
By: Beth Moore
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Defiant Joy
- By: Stasi Eldredge
- Narrated by: Stasi Eldredge
- Length: 5 hrs and 4 mins
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In her new book, Stasi Eldredge meets listeners in their painful realities and offers an invitation to a joy that is defiant in the face of this broken world. This joy does not Pollyannaish-ly ignore life's heartache; rather, it insists that sorrow and loss do not have the final say. This kind of joy is present to both goodness and grief and interprets them in the light of heaven.
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A Christian Tract
- By Anonymous User on 03-23-20
By: Stasi Eldredge
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Rare Bird
- A Memoir of Loss and Love
- By: Anna Whiston-Donaldson
- Narrated by: Hillary Huber
- Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
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On an ordinary September day, 12-year-old Jack is swept away in a freak neighborhood flood. His parents and younger sister are left to wrestle with the awful questions: How could God let this happen? Can we ever be happy again? They each fall into the abyss of grief in different ways. And in the days and months to come, they each find their faltering way toward peace. In Rare Bird, Anna Whiston-Donaldson unfolds a mother's story of loss that leads, in time, to enduring hope.
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Warning! Tears
- By Madge on 08-16-15
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Wow...
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Bird by Bird
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For a quarter century, more than a million readers and listeners—scribes and scribblers of all ages and abilities—have been inspired by Anne Lamott’s hilarious, big-hearted, homespun advice. Advice that begins with the simple words of wisdom passed down from Anne’s father—also a writer—in the iconic passage that gives the book its title.
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Why oh why did she narrate this?!
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Traveling Mercies
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With an exuberant mix of passion, insight, and humor, Anne Lamott takes us on a journey through her often troubled past to illuminate her devout but quirky walk of faith. In a narrative spiced with stories and scripture, with diatribes, laughter, and tears, Lamott tells how, against all odds, she came to believe in God and then, even more miraculously, in herself. She shows us the myriad ways in which this sustains and guides her, shining the light of faith on the darkest part of ordinary life and exposing surprising pockets of meaning and hope.
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So so good
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Some Assembly Required
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Stunned to learn that her son, Sam, is about to become a father at 19, Lamott begins a journal about the first year of her grandson, Jax's, life. In careful and often hilarious detail, Lamott and Sam - about whom she first wrote so movingly in Operating Instructions - struggle to balance their changing roles with the demands of college and work, as they both forge new relationships with Jax's mother, who has her own ideas about how to raise a child.
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Plan B
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Honest and Thoughtful
- By Lisa on 03-28-05
By: Anne Lamott
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Operating Instructions
- A Journal of My Son's First Year
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It’s not like she’s the only woman to ever have a baby. At 35. On her own. But Anne Lamott makes it all fresh in her now-classic account of how she and her son and numerous friends and neighbors and some strangers survived and thrived in that all-important first year. From finding out her baby is a boy (and getting used to the idea) to finding out her best friend and greatest supporter, Pam, will die of cancer (and not getting used to that idea), with a generous amount of wit and faith (but little piousness), Lamott narrates the great and small events making up a woman’s life.
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Funny. Uplifting.
- By quiltbrain on 11-19-20
By: Anne Lamott
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Word by Word
- By: Anne Lamott
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Writing, like life, can be a difficult process, you just have to take it Word by Word. Provocative and witty, Lamott takes you beyond her book Bird by Bird and into her "writer's mind".
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Feh...
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Breathing Under Water
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We all suffer from unhealthy dependencies that we continually return to in hopes of having a better life. But after yet another TV show is streamed or another drink is swallowed, we find we once again feel worse, not better, than we did before. Where is the hope for that fully awakened life we long to live?
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NOT JUST FOE 12-STEPPERS!!!!!
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Between the Listening and the Telling
- How Stories Can Save Us
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Stories tether us to what matters most: our families, our friends, our hearts, our planet, the wondrous mystery of life itself. Yet the stories we've been telling ourselves as a civilization are killing us: Fear is wisdom. Vanity is virtuous. Violence is peace. In Between the Listening and the Telling, author and activist Mark Yaconelli leads listeners into an enchanting meditation on the power of storytelling in our individual and collective lives. We tell stories to remember who we are. We tell stories to savor the pleasure of living.
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Overall OK 👍
- By Amazon Customer on 03-08-23
By: Mark Yaconelli, and others
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Hard Laughter
- By: Anne Lamott
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Writer (and sometime house cleaner) Jennifer is 23 when her beloved father, Wallace, is diagnosed with a brain tumor. This catastrophic discovery sets off Anne Lamott's unexpectedly sweet and funny first novel, which is made dramatic not so much by Wallace's illness as by the emotional wake it sweeps under Jen and her brothers, self-contained Ben and feckless, lovable Randy. With characteristic affection and accuracy, Lamott sketches this offbeat family and their nearest and dearest as they draw ever closer.
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Disjointed and not humorous. No laughter here.
- By Ani on 06-20-24
By: Anne Lamott
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Rosie
- By: Anne Lamott
- Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman
- Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
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If Elizabeth Ferguson had her way, she’d spend her days savoring good books, cooking great meals, and waiting for the love of her life to walk in the door. But it’s not a man she’s waiting for. It’s her daughter, Rosie - her wild-haired, smart-mouthed, and wise-beyond-her-years alter ego. With Rosie around, the days aren’t quite so long, but Elizabeth can’t keep the realities of the world at bay, and try as she might, she can’t shield Rosie from its dangers or mysteries.
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Ms Lamott captured all the correct emotions of her topic
- By Amazon Customer on 07-06-23
By: Anne Lamott
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More Beautiful Than Before
- How Suffering Transforms Us
- By: Steve Leder
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- Length: 4 hrs and 13 mins
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Every one of us sooner or later walks through hell. The hell of being hurt, the hell of hurting another. The hell of cancer, the hell of a reluctant, thunking shovel full of earth upon the casket of someone we deeply loved, the hell of betrayal, the hell of betraying, the hell of divorce, the hell of a kid in trouble...the hell of knowing that this year, like any year, may be our last. We all walk through hell. The point is not to come out empty-handed.... There is real and profound power in the suffering we endure if we transform that suffering into a more authentic, meaningful life.
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- J. Hensley
- 07-27-21
Simple, brief, funny, profoundly spiritual
Lamott's view of spirituality, while anchored in Christianity, definitely embraces the diversity of sincere spiritual life & service no matter the source. If only all people could see to the simple core of self love & forgiveness for the imperfect, broken people we all are, and empathize with this commonality we share with our fellow humans. This book can help with that vision.
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- Sara M Stewart-Gerla
- 03-30-24
I wish I would have found this sooner
This book is everything. I have never believed in an old man in the sky God and I have a hard time understanding those who do. Organized religion terrifies me. I have never prayed, truly prayed, because who am I praying to? And why? This book opened my eyes to realize you don’t have to pray to anything or anyone. Just do. And all you need are three words. Help. Thanks. Wow.
I’ve been in recovery for 4 years (with a few slips here and there) and I’ve spend hours and hours in meetings, rolling my eyes at the old timers talking about prayer and finding a higher power etc etc. I wish someone would’ve given me this book on my first day in the rooms. Everything would have been different.
After I listened to this book for the second time, I was having a wonderful day and for the first time ever, I prayed out loud. “Thanks.” The tears came and the relief that washed over me is impossible to describe. I have since recommended and given this book to so many people, all of which have come back to me with raving reviews.
Anne’s voice is so perfect. She’s dry, sarcastic slightly monotone and beyond sweet. You truly feel like you’re listening to the grandmother you never had (or always wanted) sharing with you the most simple insight. All I can say is, Thanks. And Wow.
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- Sue
- 06-25-24
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I enjoyed this for the most part because she has some good and inspiring things to say about prayer, but Anne Lamott's narration was very grating for me. Her intonation - very flat with little inflection - was exhausting to listen to.
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- Emily Shiell
- 11-16-21
Love!
I love Anne's perspective and writing style. Hearing her voice narrating is a treat as well. Quick listen with a great message!
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- amy floyd
- 09-16-24
The message, the wit, the accessible truth
I loved it. Am not religious but working on spiritual. I plan to listen to this over and over
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- Virginia H. Foxworth
- 05-28-21
More great insights and humor from Anne Lamott
Spiritual wisdom and wry humor shared in a down-to-earth way. It’s wonderful to hear the book read by Anne. She pares down prayer to its most essential. Vulnerable and connecting - a conversation with you and Anne as she shares the many ways she has conversations with God.
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- brendalynn
- 06-26-23
Anne Lamott always speaks my heart language.
this book was short and exactly what I needed to hear right now. this is meaningful stuff to help us work out some rough spaces in our lives. several times I had to stop and rewind and write that down!
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- Lisa Thompsom
- 10-17-23
“Wow” Anne Lamont, “thanks” for this book!
This book is great for Christians of all walks of life, and with its quirkiness and humanness might even reel in a few Atheists or agnostics!
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- Kindle Customer
- 08-22-20
Great writer, not a great voice.
I love Annie Lamont's writings, but it would be better if someone else read this aloud.
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- Amazon Customer
- 07-26-19
Wow
I’ve listened to this book 3 times and laugh and cry each time. She suggests such a simple and profound way to connect with God that is not offensive. Can’t wait to explore more of her work.
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