While I am not going to go limp, I am asking for the willingness to step into truth. The best-known version says: "God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference."-A certain priest friend of mine who spends too much time in the Old Testament says that all prayers should include the hope that the children of one's enemies end up living in the streets.-These prayers acknowledge that I am clueless but something else isn't.
I acted and behold, service was joy."-If I were going to begin practicing the presence of God for the first time today, it would help to begin by admitting the three most terrible truths of our existence: that we are so ruined, and so loved, and in charge of so little.-The Serenity Prayer is one of the most famous instituiotinalized prayers of the world, a Greatest Hits prayer.
Or maybe, miraculously, we just release our grip slightly.-The great Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore wrote,"I slept and dreamt that life was joy. It begins with stopping in our tracks, or with our backs against the wall, or when we are going under the waves, or when we are just so sick and tired of being physically 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 means that, in some unique way, we believe we're invited into a relationship with someone who hears us when we speak in silence.-Prayer can be motion and stillness and energy-all at the same time. Let's just say prayer is communication from our hearts to the great mystery, or Goodness, or Howard to the animating energy of love we are sometimes bold enough to believe in to something unimaginably big, and not us. My friend Robin calls God "the Grandmothers." The Deteriorata, a parody of the Desiderata, counsels us, "Therefore, make peace with your god, / Whatever you conceive him to be- / Hairy thunderer, or cosmic muffin.". The following are excerpts taken from Anne Lamott's Help Thanks Wow. Bold and italics are mine. ^^ Anne LamottThis book had the absolute best, brilliant chapter on prayer that I have ever read - maybe the best prayer #hottake ever! I think I will always and forever love anything that Anne Lamott writes. There's freedom in hitting bottom, in seeing that you won't be able to save or rescue your daughter, her spouse, his parents, or your career, relief in admitting you've reached the place of great unknowing.
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